The early morning light filtered through the faded, moth-eaten curtains of the dingy motel room, casting a feeble, grayish glow upon the worn-out carpet. Rose Wilson stood before the tarnished mirror, her dark eyes reflecting a sense of weary determination. She was getting dressed, her lithe figure concealed in a black leather catsuit, one that clung to her like a second skin. She prepared to place her armour over the suit, getting ready to meet up with the rest of the team as Murn had requested their presence. The atmosphere was charged with an undeniable tension, a tension which was broken. As soon as Rose finished looking in the mirror, her thoughts were broken by the loud snoring of one;

Y/N L/N lay sprawled on the rumpled sheets of the motel bed, bathed in the muted glow of the morning. His H/C hair was a tousled mess, and the slight scruff on his face hinted at a night not too well spent. He was, without a doubt, hungover. A soft, almost mischievous smile played on Rose's lips as she turned her attention away from the mirror and toward the man in her bed, or rather, the motel's bed.

"Hey, Sleeping Beauty," Rose purred, her voice like a velvet whisper as she sauntered closer to the bed. Her knee-high boots made a barely audible thud on the creaky floorboards. She leaned over, allowing a cascade of hair to fall tantalisingly close to Y/N's face. "Time to rise and shine."

Y/N groaned, his eyes fluttering open like a pair of reluctant curtains. He squinted up at Rose, his vision still blurred from the remnants of last night's revelry. "Rose," he mumbled, his voice husky and filled with the remnants of a night of too much drinking. "What time is it?"

Rose flashed a sly grin as she straightened up, the leather of her catsuit whispering its approval. "Time to get up, lazy," she teased, her fingers lightly tracing the contours of his cheek. "We've got places to be, and I can't be the one to take the blame if we get shit for being late."

Y/N let out a low, appreciative chuckle, despite the pounding in his head. He couldn't deny that Rose had a way of making even a throbbing hangover seem a little more bearable. "You're always so damn serious," he murmured, reaching out to grab her hand and pull her closer.

Rose allowed herself to be drawn in, her body melting against his as she perched on the edge of the bed. Her eyes locked onto his, a smoldering intensity burning in her gaze. "Only when I have to be," she replied, her lips hovering dangerously close to his.

Y/N thought this was still a dream, a very nice dream as he could see Rose in a suit showing off her curves almost straddling him. Hell, if this was a dream he never wanted to wake up. Just as the man thought he was about to get lucky 

Smack

A big red hand mark appeared on his face as Rose lifted herself off of him and he held his face in shock. The cheeky bitch slapped him hard, and she held that teasing smirk and then a shocked face, she knew exactly what she was doing.

"Did you really think that was going to happen?" she smiled, going back to the mirror and fixing her hair. 

"Maybe ow" Y/N answered, sitting up and swinging his legs over to stand up properly. "Did you really have to hit me that hard?" he asked, walking across the room towards the bathroom. 

"Physically or emotionally?" she joked back. 

"Both" he yelled. "Besides, what happened to the whole 'slit my dick off' if I tried anything?" Y/N further questioned. 

Rose teasingly rolled her eyes for once, "That would reply I'd actually have to touch you, and knowing your perverted mind you'd probably get off on it" she retorted, causing Y/N to shake his head and jump in the shower. He was too hungover to come up with an actual funny response. But Rose had to admit, she got a look at Y/N shirtless. She liked what she saw. 

Later 

The group were gathered up for a meeting about the Butteries. Economos had prepared a presentation which Murn was currently giving, while everyone was listening, even Vigilante somehow. Y/N looked over and saw that something was on Peacemaker's mind. 

"A year ago, Alan Kupperberg, the billionaire CEO of Waresoft, and pop singer Vandalia perished in a plane crash. During their autopsies, small insect-like winged creatures, presumably extraterrestrial, were found in their skulls. This is when we first became aware of the butterflies" Murn explained as the tv showed an image of a man and a woman. The next slide showed an image of certain high celebrities like Tommy Wiseau, Pedro Pascal and Amy Schumer just to name a few. "Since then, we've found the creatures in a handful of high-profile politicians, celebrities and titans of industry" Murn further explained. 

The next slide showed something that causes Y/N to hold in a laugh, and Rose did ever so slightly although she wouldn't admit it. 

"They enter the human body through one of its orifices and burrow through to the brain where they then are in control of the body" Murn explained, although it didn't really take away from the childish humour. The fact the person on the right was also hitting that T-Pose added some humour also. 

"They go through the butt?" Chris asked confused with a tilt of the head. 

"I think that's just some, uh... creativity on the part of whomever did the animation"  Murn responded rather awkwardly, looking back at the presentation and then back to the group sat around a table. 

"The butt is an orifice, okay?" Enconmos said with a sigh. 

"That means they'd have to crawl through poop" Adrian spoke up, looking over at Economos with a stern expression. "Just 'cause they're aliens doesn't make them gross. Bigotry" he spat out the last word. 

"Superman's an alien" Chris chimed in. "He's got a poop fetish" he added, causing shocked expressions to echo throughout the meeting.

"Bullshit" Rose spoke up. 

"What?" Adrian asked. 

"Get the fuck outta here" Adebayo said with a role of the eyes. 

"Oh, yeah. He uber-liebes the old scheisse, as I understand it" Chris explained with a big old grin visible on his face. 

"Yeah not gonna like" Y/N said, moving around in his seat slightly uncomfortable looking. "I've fucked two aliens and both of them had a weird thing about my ass" he added, causing Adrian to looked even more shocked and Chris to nod. 

"Fuck off" Harcourt butted in, started to get tired of the stories and tales from the two. 

"What it's true" Y/N tried to justify raising his shoulder slightly. "Trust me having Power Girl grab my ass was like having five steel dicks digging into my cheeks" he added, leaning back into his chair. 

"First off, shut the fuck up" Rose began, pointing at Y/N as she was sat opposite him on the table. "And you" she added turning her pointing finger towards Peacemaker. "Where do you they this nonsense?". 

"Google" he answered back. 

"Well it's not true" Harcourt tried to reason. 

"You know more than Google?" Well congratulations" Chris spat back, everyone turned back to Murn who agreed. 

"The butterflies' unique genetic structure and chemistry interact with the hosts' bodies, giving them strength far beyond that of a human being" he explained, the presentation now showing the Butterfly go into a person. Spreading its corruption through the whole body. Although the group did take notice of a monkey next to the human diagram. 

"What's the ape for?" Rose asked. 

"Chimpanzees have four times the strength of human beings, so they're both strong" Economos explained, swivelling his chair to speak to the mercenary. His voice sounding like he was slightly annoyed. 

"Yeah, and we're supposed to get that just by looking at this, Dye-Beard?" Chris asked with a roll of the eyes. 

"I thought the man and the chimp were friends?" Adrian asked, clearly puzzled by everything going on around him. 

"Dude have you not seen any of the Planet of the Ape movies" Y/N asked, concerned for Vigilante's knowledge of pop culture. "No matter what happens, man and chimp will always find a way to fight each other. Look James Franco he was important in the first movie then fucking disappeared for the rest of the trilogy" he complained with a wave of the hand.

"Probably off fucking some students" Rose joked, causing Y/N to look over at her with a wide grin across his lips. Y/N starred at Rose for a moment, a moment which seemed like an eternity. And a thought came into his mind 'as she always been THAT pretty'. They then turned their attention back towards Murn who resumed his presentation. 

The slideshow now showing container of a liquid contained in jars. "This viscous amber fluid has been found on the premises of all the dead Butterflies. Lab studies show the fluid's genetic structure is dissimilar to anything on this planet. The fluid seems to be the butterflies' only food source. Which makes what Leota discovered last night potentially significant" the presentation whooshed to the next slide showing a business card with the company name 'Glan Tai Bottling Company'. "This was on the bulletin board in the Goff home. Leota noticed that this is also where Annie Sturphausen was employed" Annie being the Butterfly Peacemaker slept with and then blew up with one of his helmets. As the powerpoint then had a green screen explosion over it. 

"HA" Peacemaker laughed out loud. "You fucking suck at powerpoint Dye-Beard" he insulted, his voice quite loud and heavy. 

"Yeah well you can do it next time. It's not like I enjoy doing this" he retorted, not looking Peacemaker in the eyes as he spoke. 

"Yeah, you do!" Chris chuckled. "It's amazing, the incredible amount of time you put into this presentation, and how incredibly shitty it still is!" he continued to laugh causing Vigilante to also. 

"Okay Peacemaker shut up" Murn tried to calm down the situation. 

"Yeah man come on now, you're going a little too-" before Y/N could finish Economos spoke up in his own defence. Answering as to why Peacemaker was so pissed at him. 

"Dude I didn't mean to put your father in prison", and this revelation caused Y/N and Rose to go very wide eyes, well Rose wide eye. 

"Then why'd you put him there, you fat fսck?" Chris angrily shouted, slamming his right fist into the metal table. 

"Who is your dad, just bust him out yourself" Y/N retorted folding his arms. 

"White Dragon" Harcourt and Adebayo answered causing eyes to go even wider. 

"Your dads the fucking White Dragon?" Rose asked looking very confused and concerned. 

"Yeah what about it?" Chris asked, gritting his teeth as anger surged through him. 

"Dude your dad is literally Grand Wizard Man, Born Leader of the Ku Klux Klan" Y/N said, backing up his seat not wanting to catch the racism. "I literally walked in on a target jerking himself to a picture of White Dragon and Captain Nazi, I then promptly blew his brains out before he could blow his load" Y/N added as he looked very uncomfortable recalling that day. Bleach in the eyes doesn't compare to what he did to try and forget that sight. 

"I couldn't think of anybody else" Economos tried to justify although it didn't help his case. 

"What about Ariana Grande, or Drake?" Chris scoffed out, preparing to lug out as many names as he possibly could. 

"What?" Economos asked in confusion.  

"Brad Pitt, or Payne Stewart, or Doug the Pug? Khloe Kardashian, the Red Tiger from Voltron, Fran Tarkenton, Joe Montana, Joe Mantegna" Peacemaker began to list, calling upon all the celebrities and pop culture references he could at the top of his head. "Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravtiz, Ezra Miller, Amber Heard, Johnny Depp, Russell Brand, Jeremy Renner" 

"What the fսck?" Economos tried to bit in, only to be cut across by Peacemaker. 

"...Eddie Murphy, Michael Jordan, Michael B. Jordan, BTS? Eugene Levy? John Lovitz?" he continued to list

"fսck, dude, half..." Dye Beard at this point was at a loss for words. 

"Shut the fսck up and listen, man. I'm giving you a list of people you could've done" Chris angrily stated pointing his finger at Economos. "Danny DeVito, Will Ferrell, Howard Stern, Baba Booey, Robin Ophelia Quivers, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne....." and he just went on, and on. 

At this point Vigilante was chuckling slightly at the sight. Meanwhile, Y/N, Rose. Adebayo and Harcourt all looked at each other, almost impressed at his ability to name so much stuff. 

"Ironboybooks, WilsonsWitts, UltramanWhoLaughs" Chris continued. 

"Those last three aren't even people" Economos tried to speak back only to be once again cut across by Chris. 

"Bill Cosby, he just got out, he's got time on his hands! Amy Winehouse..."

"Dude, Amy Winehouse is fսcking dead!"

Optimus Prime, Shipwreck, Cobra Commander, Bill Cipher, Doctor Eggman, Fire Lord Ozai, fucking Joss Whedon that man deserves time" and Chris finished his naming by calling upon one of the worst shows of all time. (Besides from Season 1 that was actually pretty good) "The fսcking CUNTS from Riverdale!" he stated, taking in a deep breath. 

"All right, next time I fսck¡ng have to frame somebody, it'll be one of all those fսck¡ng thousands of people you just mentioned" Economos argued back.

"Yeah, tell that to my dad" Chris mumbled back. 

"Peacemaker, shut the fսck up!" Murn shouted out, waving a fist around in anger at how dysfunctional this team was turning out to be. "Do you all want to be here till tomorrow?" he asked the rest of the team, a moment of silence overtook the makeshift office. Vigilante then awkwardly raised his hand. 

"Do you have cable?" he asked, one could tell by his tone of voice Chase was slightly scared of Murn after that outburst. "So, I don't want to stay here overnight if there's no cable. Fargo's on tonight" he stated. 

"It was a rhetorical question" Murn barked back, frustration ever clear in his voice. 

"Oh okay" Chase said, looking down and then back at Murn. "Well then, I change my answer to just ignoring the question. Not another word" he finished, doing a zip up the lips motion, and Rose silently hoped that would be true for the rest of the mission. 

"The point is... the raw amber fluid is potentially processed and bottled at Glan Tai Bottling Company" as Murn explained the situation, Adebayo took notes. "Glan Tai is in Little Cork, about two hours northwest of here, so you all are gonna take a field trip and see what you can find out" Murn informed the team, looking at each member hoping they can get one thing done without him needing to be there. "I'm going to stay back and deal with the White Dragon situation" he stated. 

As Murn finished, Peacemaker showed the notes he had made. Spread across two pages, were the words 'eat a dick dye beard'. 

"Nice penmanship, asshole" Economos spat out as he stood. "And Fargo's not on till tomorrow night, you fucking nerd" he directed towards a laughing Vigilante. 

"Wait, what's your fucking problem with Danny DeVito?" Y/N asked Peacemaker, insulted that Chris would want the trash man locked up. 

Later 

The team was gearing up for their little road trip, Harcourt and Economos were making sure all the tech stuff was in correct order. Meanwhile Adebayo was in the office gathering her papers, while the four killers were making sure their gear was in order. Although Adebayo had some words for Chris;

"John, you hurt his feelings" she scolded packing away a few files. "He worked hard on those graphics".

"Did he though?" Y/N asked with folded arms, causing Rose to smack him in the head. 

"Come on, I think maybe you're discounting how funny some of the shit I was saying was" he joked back, as he was giving his helmet a good polish. 

"It's not funny calling him Dye-Beard for the thousandth time when he's told you repeatedly he doesn't like it" she tried to argue back, packing her bag and zipping it up. 

"That's just Peacemaker, man. He's always giving people nicknames" Vigilante reasoned as he came in holding a suit case full of ammunition. 

"Yeah thanks" Chris said to his friend. 

"Being a bully's just part of his personality" 

"What?"

"Ha" Rose laughed, then promptly covered her mouth. 

"Like how you used to call my brother Prince Charming" Adrian reminded. 

"Your brother was a handsome man. That was a compliment" Chris clarified. 

"I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that I don't think he considered it a compliment that you called him Prince Charming because his penis was shaped like a sceptre" Adrian said like it was nothing. Who says something like that with a straight face. 

"Are you fucking kidding me?" Y/N asked with raised eyebrows, he really wouldn't describe a siblings dick like that. 

 "No, it was really bulbous at the end. He called me Thimble" Adrian said, slightly embarrassed. 

"Thimble?" Rose asked, also confused. 

"Yeah, I was a late bloomer" Adrian clarified, thinking that's what Rose was confused about. Adrian then proceeded to give a little backstory, which seemed to give him a more creepy aura. Almost sociopath. "I didn't go through puberty until my mid-20s. I mean, I didn't care 'cause I don't have emotions like people do, but the other guys, after Chris came up with a nickname for them, usually based on their penises, they would just walk into the other room and sob, because that would become their name for the rest of their life" he finished, Y/N and Rose looked at each other then back to Vigilante. The man is just all sorts of weird, but in a good way. 

"Why are you seeing their penises?" Adebayo asked. 

"It's a locker room, dude. What am I gonna do? Look at a towel?" Chris tried to justify. 

"So you just starred at peoples dicks, and made nicknames based off how veiny or warty they were?" Y/N asked, starting to catch on to Chris and the methods behind his madness. 

"Exactly see, fucking Blind X over here gets it" Chris joked. "My friend Veiny McVeinerstein said I was like a gypsy, but with dicks instead of palms. But, hey, I got bullied too" 

"How?" Adebayo asked. 

"By kids calling me a bully all the time, and telling me I was abusive" Chris answered, to which Adebayo clicked her tongue, rolled her eyes and walked away. "Hey, that hurt my feelings! Plus, I think we're missing what's important here, and that's how much Economos sucks at PowerPoint". 

"Look, just think about how you talk to him, okay?" Adebayo tried to say, as she walked off. 

"So, what's life like being blind?" Vigilante asked, changing the subject and turning his attention to Y/N. Causing Rose to sigh in frustration.

"Terrible, absolutely terrible" Y/N admitted, as he very clearly grabbed a pistol on the terrible and tucked it into his belt, which a blind person couldn't do. "My blindness is very unique, comes and goes" Y/N admitted, stuffing down a laugh. 

"Really?" Adrian pressed further. 

"Yeah, had it most of my life" Y/N stated, "Just one night, blindness, hours later I could see" he added. 

"Wait? I thought you became blind after fighting Crazy Quilt?" Adrian asked in confusion. 

"Why the fuck would I fight Dekker?" Y/N asked using the villains real name. "The guy is an artist". 

"Aren't you a former Robin?"

"No, where the fuck did you get that idea?" Y/N demanded, almost offended someone would think Red X was a former Robin. 

"Bing" 

"Well there's your fucking answer you used Bing, ya fucking Bing Boy" Chris scolded as he double checked his helmet. 

"Jesus Christ" Rose sighed again, rubbing her forehead in frustration. 

"Wait. So you're not a former Robin? You're just some blind guy?" 

"He's not fucking blind, for fucks sake" Rose snapped, they all then armed themselves. And made their way to the truck which was being driven by Harcourt. The journey to the bottling facility was surprisingly pretty quiet for the first hour. But towards the second hour, Chris and Economos actually found out they have something in common besides a hatred of each other. A love for rock music. Trading stories of their favourite bands, concerts, Chris even having Economos' favourite bands CD and sticking it on. As the music flared however, Y/N's nostrils picked up on his own odour. 

"Daw shit, I'm smelling like actual shit" he swore, sniffing his armpits and heaving slightly. 

"No duh, why'd you think I bought an air freshener for the motel room" Rose retorted. 

"Maybe I could wash properly, if you didn't use all the fucking hot water" Y/N swore back, and the small argument gathered the attention of the others. 

"You two are arguing like an old married couple back there" Chris called out from the passenger seat. 

"One minute you get along, the next you don't" Adebayo stated adding to what Chris said. 

"Isn't like customary for married couples to share a room?" Adrian asked, sounding really stupid as he said it and drawing questionable looks from the others. 

"Yeah dickwad, I shared a room with Condiment King to make sure he didn't choke out on his own vomit. I guess that means we're married" Y/N retorted as he rolled his eyes. 

"On his own vomit?" Economos asked. 

"Yeah the guy has a small drinking problem" Y/N answered. "Anyway, and no I wasn't on about myself. Trust me I spray like half a bottle of deodorant each day" he added. "No it's this fucking suit, when you fuckers nabbed me you couldn't at least stopped by to get my other suits. This one sticks more than Killer Moth after he invented that fucking snot gun." he swore to himself, thinking back to that day. "Do you think it's in the budget for me to like, maybe get a new suit?" he questioned, which fell on deaf ears. 

"Anyway, we are not acting like a married couple" Rose clarrified waving her hands around. 

"Yeah, I am way too handsome and in demand to be tied down" Y/N added, both agreeing on the fact. 

"Okay maybe not married" Adebayo drew teasingly, seeing that they had struck a nerve for both killers. "But you guys definitely act couple like" she added with a smile. 

"First of all-" both stated at the same time, 

"What shame" Harcourt cut across, slamming her foot on the break. "We're here" she stated. 

Chris cocked a shotgun then proceeded to leave the truck. 

"Alright that might be overkill" Harcourt stated as she followed Peacemaker outside. 

"I fought these Butterflies before remember?" 

"We're not even sure they're in there. Just take your pistol" Harcourt tried to reason. 

"I finger bang you, I'm not using my pinky" Chris stated. 

"That's a disgusting phrase" Adebayo scoffed. 

"You're just saying that cause lesbians don't finger bang" Chris replied, with that statement he actually be dumber than Vigilante. 

"Lesbians finger bang more than the rest of the world combined you shining head asshole" Rose spoke up as she loaded up her dual handguns and stuffed them in the back of her belt. 

"How would you know?" Y/N asked with raised eyebrows. 

"You've claimed to sleep with Blackfire" Rose smirked. "Starfire was just as frisky" she said to herself, putting heavy emphasis on the 'y' at the end. Causing Y/N to look at Rose quite shocked. 

"Okay I just forgot women had fingers for a second okay" Chris admitted in defeat. 

"How do you think we grab things?" Adebayo scoffed, going to pick up a small pistol. 

"Not in life, in sex" Chris clarified. 

"So now women, specifically lesbians fingers fall off just for sex then magnetise back on?" Y/N asked, with squinted eyes and a very confused look. 

"I don't know, I wasn't thinking okay?" 

"When was the last time you actually did any thinking?" Rose asked, she then took notice that Chris was wearing a new helmet. One that has more pointy ends, and a sleek black stripe flowing down to each side. "What's the new tinfoil hat for?" she asked. 

But before Rose could get answer, out the back of the truck. Throwing caution to the wind, no fucks given came Vigilante. Brandishing a chainsaw, revving it at full creating a mighty noise laughing the whole time. 

"No" Harcourt barked trying to shut that thing off before anyone heard them. 

"What?" Vigilante replied laughing as he continued to rev the chainsaw. Y/N couldn't help but look at the the chainsaw in awe, sure he's beheaded people before. Cut off a few limbs, saw Killer Croc eat a man. But this was cutting up people with a chainsaw, chainsaw! He wanted to see this. 

"I can't hear you, this thing's so fucking loud!" Chase yelled back, although he allow the chainsaw to lower it's volume and eventually stop revving altogether. 

"You're not bringing that" Harcourt shouted, trying to act as field team leader. Needing to control the killers in the group. 

"Let the man use the damn chainsaw" Y/N tried to argue. "I got your back that thing is fucking kick ass" Y/N cheered looking at the chainsaw then back to Vigilante. The two shared a quick high five as they both wanted to wreck some carnage with that thing. 

"Come on please" Chase pleaded, clapping his hands together. Harcourt didn't even respond, and gave Vigilante a stern expression which was all the answer he needed to admit defeat. "Ah, fսck! I'm never, ever gonna kill someone with a fսcking chainsaw" he sighed, closing up the truck behind him. "It's so not fair. Total fսcking bullshit" he sulked. He, Chris, Harcourt, Adebayo, Y/N and Rose then left the truck, leaving Economos behind as tech support. 

"So what's the plan?" Rose asked. 

"We take a multi level approach, we don't know if any Butterflies are actually here so we need to be careful" Harcourt stated as they were around the corner from the main entrance. "Three teams of two, one team takes the upstairs, one the main entrance, one the loading dock" he added, checking her handgun. 

"I call upstairs, always love throwing people off of stairs and out windows" Y/N smiled. 

"Alright, now for who's with who" Harcourt began, but before she could think of a way to sort this out. Y/Ns partner was answered. 

With a sigh, Rose answered. "I'll go with X" which drew some shocked and confused looks from the others especially Y/N. "What we've been working with each other for most of this dammned mission". 

"Makes sense" Vigilante agreed. 

"How are you going to get upstairs? You can't scale the building it'll draw too much attention" Adebayo said, pointing up to the fact that the upstairs had a lot of windows, and they didn't have that equipment. 

"Don't worry" Y/N eased with a grin, digging into his belt for something. "I've got a plan" he smiled. 

Rose looked at what he pulled out, and her eye went wide in panic. "No you are not fucking doing that-"

Cut to two minutes later, Harcourt and Adebayo had done a game of rock, paper scissors to see who got paired with Chris and Adrian respectively. Adebayo was the winner and got Peacemaker. Those two were to follow Y/N and Rose in precisely two minutes and thirty seconds. But for now, Y/N L/N and Rose Wilson walked into the bottling company front entrance, still in costume just without the masks. It was 20XX so they really couldn't judge fashion, and if they asked about the guns. This was America, second amendment rights. But Y/N looked different, he had a pair low vision aid glasses, and had a cane in his right hand which he seemingly used to help him find his way forward. Rose was biting her tongue in heavy frustration, opening the front door so the poor 'blind' man could find his way. 

"Can I help you?" the voice of the female receptionist asked, Y/N turned, acting frightened playing the part perfectly. 

"Oh sorry, apologies" Y/N stated in a sacred voice, sounding almost ill causing Rose to sigh again. He was supposed to be blind not dying. "Me and my partner, were hoping if it were possible to get a tour of your fine facility here" he said, starting to sound like an old man. 

"Yes" Rose stated, laying through her teeth, her acting was horrible. "See, my-" she almost choked on the word alone. "-Partner here, has admired your company for so long, and he's a big fan of....." Rose drew out, waiting for Economos to give some random beverage that Glan Tai produced or at least bottled. ".....Koul-Brau Beer, and he was hoping to possibly at least smell and experience the sights, now that he has lost his ability.....to see" she finished, it pained Rose to even speak those words. 

"Oh I see" the receptionist stated, "Well I suppose I can arrange something for this unique situation" she added, if she were a Butterfly she was playing the part of a confused human perfectly. "I'll just take you up to see my manager" she said, standing from her seat towards the stairs to the upper level. Y/N noticed there were quite a few workers with helmets walking about, wouldn't normally see that on the office floor. 

"Can't believe this is working" Economos sighed over comms, completely aghast at the idiotic plan. 

Just as they neared the top off the stairs however, Chris and Adebayo walked in about a minute early. Chris was holding a bag full of guns and other explosives, while brandishing his shotgun. "Activate X-Ray vision" he spoke, with the lenses of his helmet turning red. 

"Hey I'll be with you in just a mom-" before the receptionist could finish, her head was instantly blown off by the shotgun, spraying brain matter everywhere. 

"Fucking hell" Rose swore jumping backwards. 

"Aw fuck some went in my mouth" Y/N stated, using his free hand to wipe his tongue.  

"The fuck!" Adebayo cursed at her teammate. 

"X-Ray vision" Chris responded, pumping the shotgun. "Can see into their brains" he added, looking up and seeing one of the little buggers crawling out of the receptionists head. Which was then promptly blown apart, as they mentally prepped themselves for what was to come next. A loud roar echoed from the floor Y/N and Rose were on. Looking up, they saw a few workers, with very angry expressions. And judging by the growling coming from a few of them, they definitely weren't human. 

"Shit" Y/M mumbled/ 

"You two keep heading down that way" Rose ordered down to Chris and Adebayo. "We'll deal with them" she added, pulling her mask over her face and unsheathing her katana and drawing her pistol. 

Y/N threw his cane aside as the Butterflies approached;

Y/N drew his own X mask over his face, drawing two knives and flipping them in a reverse grip. "Most kills win?" he asked as the controlled humans approached with fists and make shift weapons. 

"You're on" Rose responded, firing off a few shots from her pistol as the Butterflies charged. 

As one Butterfly approached Red X ducked underneath the ragged punch, stabbing her in the leg causing her to fall to her knees and a quick stab to the back of the head to finish her off. Y/N flipped his knife, shacking off the brain matter and the wing of the Butterfly. 

Ravager covered her teammate, popping off shots left and right as the Butterflies just continued to charge. Like lambs to the slaughter, one managed to get behind Rose and deliver q quick punch to her face. But the Daughter of Deathstroke ducked underneath the next hit, and rammed her Glock under the mans chin and blowing the Butterfly to oblivion. 

X threw one of his knives forward stabbing into a Butterflies shoulder momentarily stopping him. Using his other knife, X slit the stunned mans throat, causing the Butterfly to flee its former hosts body. Which Rose promptly shot before it could flee the area or infect either of them. Y/N then reached behind his back, pulling out his own handgun a Beretta 71 which he promptly began to unload into the aliens. Rose then slashed her katana upwards, slicing off an arm, before quickly following up with a decapitation. 

Rose, her slashed her katana now stained with the ichor of their foes, twirled gracefully between attacks, her movements fluid and on point. Her pistol barked in unison with Y/N's, their synchronized gunfire creating a symphony of destruction. The chemistry between them intensified with every shot fired, a dance of violence had been created, blood and dead Butterflies littering the venue between the two dancers. 

With a sultry smirk, X glanced at Rose, his eyes locked on her as he complimented her skills, his voice dripping with a flirty undertone. "Impressive shooting" he purred, his tone a mixture of admiration and desire. "You always manage to hit your mark, don't you?"

Rose met his gaze with a mischievous glint in her eye, her lips curling into a seductive smile as she continued to dispatch their attackers. "I could say the same about you, Red," she replied, her voice husky with a hint of flirtation. "But mines better" she smiled. 

The whole moment was a blur of gunfire and flashing blades, but amidst the chaos, Red X and Ravager found a strange and exhilarating connection.

They moved as one, a deadly partnership that seemed forged in the crucible of conflict. The alien-controlled humans kept coming, but the allure of the two enigmatic figures in the light of the windows proved irresistible, drawing the hapless victims closer to their own demise.

One Butterfly came at Y/N with a kitchen knife, swinging wildly but the mercenary easily avoided the oncoming strikes. 

It was as the corpses were pilling up did Y/N and Rose realise why exactly these things had Judomaster working for them. They weren't fighters, helpless workers trying to defend themselves. 

Another door was kicked open, and more seemingly the last wave of Butterflies were coming there way as they growled and roared. 

"Allow me" Rose stated, causing Y/N to look confused. Rose slipped a small explosive off her belt, and launched it in the direction of the new Butterflies. The instant the device touched the ground, the doorway was consumed in a large fireball burning all the Butterflies to a crisp. Y/N looked on, seeing Roses figure illuminated by the orange light, and word came to his mind. 

"Wow" he whispered almost breathlessly. 

They looked around, seeing all the Butterflies were dead, and she patted X on the shoulder with a smile and pulled off her mask. "Looks like I win" she said, walking down the stairs. Y/N watched her walk for a second, this feeling, it was a little different than what he felt with other women he had met and had an attraction to. Something about Rose just made his head spin and heart skip a beat. 

"Economos" Rose called out over coms as she reached the bottom of the stairs. "Top floor dealt with, moving to join Peacemaker and Adebayo".

"Yeah you might wanna hurry, I can't raise them over coms" he urged the two. Both quickly walked down the hallways, checking their weapons, ammo etc as they did. There weren't too many corpses littered about, but the ones that were had their heads blown off. 

But as they walked, Y/N had to get something out. "Okay what we did back there was badass right?" he asked, throwing a magazine aside with it lodging in a destroyed head. 

"Really need to ask?" Rose responded with a smirk as they both delve deeper into the factory. As they approached where they presumed Chris and Adebayo were, the whole area was a wreck. Flames consumed corners, smoke covered vast areas of the large facility, Chris and Adebayo were on the floor covered in black smoke. And there was a clear, very large crater where the explosion originated, as a tsunami of blood was also present at that area. "Everything alright?" Rose asked the two teasingly. 

"No not really" Adebayo responded, dusting herself off and standing up. "This dumbass thought taping a hand grenade to a tank shell was a good idea" she scoffed at Peacemaker, who was picking himself up.

"What? I had a grenade, I had a tank shell. What was I suppose to do use them separately?" Chris asked, sousing very sarcastic as he spoke. 

"To be fair, nothing wrong with a very big explosion" Y/N tried to justify as the four began to navigate the room. 

"Damn straight" Chris agreed with an ear to ear smile. 

Adebayo shrugged, and moved ahead of the group. Into the room where Vigilante and Harcourt were trapped in. But as the three killers caught up to, and were just around the corner. They heard a mighty roar, which did not sound like any Butterfly. Which was met with a scream from a panicked Adebayo. "GORILLA!" and she was promptly knocked on her ass. The three then charged in, to see a mother fucking Butterfly controlled Gorilla standing there, Peacemaker raised his shotgun which was grabbed by the Gorilla and easily crushed. 

"Fuck" Chris swore as the Gorilla kicked him away into some metal shelving. 

Y/N and Rose unleaded their respective handguns into the beast, encircling it and trying to bring it down. Although the bullets appeared to hurt the Gorilla, it easily had the strength to knock Rose away and wildly swing his arm and knock Y/N into some tubs. The Gorilla charged at the downed Red-X, raising its mighty arms and ready to crush his ribs. But Rose quickly unsheathed her katana once more, and literally stabbed the beast in the back, she was joined by Vigilante who also stabbed his own sword under its left arm. But these were naught, as the Gorilla knocked both killers away, their blades with him. Harcourt and Adebayo then unloaded their own guns into the beast, causing it to raise its arms to defend itself. 

"Get the fucker" Rose cursed. 

But the Ape was too mighty, and sent Harcourt flying, launching her into shelving which collapsed. The Ape then easily knocked Adebayo away. With his handgun lost somewhere in the room, Y/N reached into his pocked and pulled out a small, sleek davis derringer 22. A small gun which held only two shots, which he promptly unloaded. The ape didn't even flinch, and prepared to crush Rose. But before he could, Peacemaker leapt up and choke held the Gorilla. But this did little, as the Ape flipped Chris off itself and prepared to finish him.

"Die Human!" the Ape roared, the voice sounding rough and jagged but slightly distorted. But before the Gorilla could kill Peacemaker, the sound of a revving chainsaw could be heard, blood sprayed onto Chris and began to leak out of the Gorilla's mouth as it roared in pain. 

Economos had decided to join the fight, using Vigilante's chainsaw and shoving it deep into the Gorilla. Ripping apart its insides, covering himself in blood. Moving the chainsaw up and down as a massive, gaping hole was created, the Gorilla falling to the ground dead. There was a moment of silence, and Chris was on one knee in shock.

"Economos?" he asked to the man drenched in crimson, both breathing heavily. 

"Yeah" was all he answered back. Economos offered a shaking hand to Peacemaker, who gladly took it. 

"You fucking stud" Peacemaker cheered as he was now on his feet. 

"Yeah, yeah, yeah I am" Economos agreed shockingly as he looked down at the dead Ape and then around the room before looking back to Chris. "I'm a fucking stud!" he also cheered. 

"That was fucking awesome!" Y/N shouted, leaping to his feet and also embracing the ginger bearded man in a hand shake. 

The drive back to HQ was wildly more entraining than the drive there. Rock music that energised everyone, making them feel amazing after what they had just done. Chris and Economos gladly singing along with the former doing air drums along with the beat. Adebayo who was driving sway slightly in tune with the music. Vigilante was doing some goofy ass dance. Y/N decided he was gonna rock out too, doing a bad air guitar which was not in sync with the chords playing at all but he didn't care. They just took down a Gorilla, they were riding that high. Even Rose cracked a smile, nodding along with the music. Seeing the sweet moment, Harcourt smirked, and took a picture of the whole gang. Just a small memory. Eventually however, the team returned to the pop up headquarters. 

"Also, I don't mean to brag, sir, but it becomes a brag just by saying it, we defeated a gorilla!" Adebayo said with a goofy smile, slamming some papers on her desk. 

"Technically, I think it was a super-gorilla, since we pulled a butterfly out of its brain" Economos corrected, still in slight shock over the ordeal.

"No, definitely a super-gorilla. Last time I fought a gorilla was at Burning Man four years ago" Chris added in. 

"Just be glad it wasn't a telepathic Gorilla, trust me that bastard was a pain" Y/n chimed in, leaning on a desk behind him. 

"So... we guess this means butterflies can use any life form as a host" Harcourt surmised. 

"Chihuahua?" Vigilante asked. 

"Probably wouldn't fit"

"Would be cool, though" Adrian chuckled. 

 "That wouldn't be cool at all. Why would that be cool?"

"You tell me"

"It wouldn't be"

"There's your answer" Adrian responded like an idiot with a laugh. 

 "Well, this is good work. We're gonna need to sort through this and see what we can find" Murn spoke up, looking at every member of the group. Inspiring hope into all of them that this mission will be coming to an end. "Importantly, we want to see if we can trace where the raw amber fluid originally came from. Finding the source of the butterflies' food may be key to defeating them.But that can wait until tomorrow. You all have earned a rest" he said, causing everyone to cheer somewhat. 

The team all laughed and giggled as they left;

"Ah the EconoGOAT killed it!" Chris cheered shacking his shoulders. 

"You were fucking awesome man" Y/N agreed, lightly punching the mans shoulder. 

"Thanks guys" Economos responded, slightly awkwardly. 

Y/N and Rose made their way towards their shared car, slamming the doors closed with Y/N in the drivers seat. 

"So" he began, looking down at the wheel then at his teammate. "Drinks?" he asked with a smile. Causing Rose to also smile. 

"Fuck yeah drinks" she agreed. "But first, nachos" she said, causing Y/N to pump his fist as the engine of the car roared to life. 

Author's Note 

Wow that was a lot longer than I thought it was gonna be (phrasing). Around 7.5K words, longest chapter yet for this book i think? But I do hoped you enjoyed. Lot of thought went into this, I knew it was this chapter I wanted to play into the blind thing slightly. So that's why this took so long. 

Hope the fight scenes were okay, they're not my forte but I think they were decent here. 

Next chapter maybe shorter, IDK how I'm gonna work Y/N and Rose into some scenes but I'll try and make something work. Next chapter is gonna be the reveal of Y/Ns backstory, been crafting it for a while. And trust me, it's gonna be dark. 

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