Put on Your Shades 'Cause I'll be Dancing in the Flames

[sonoflongshot]

Ever since Angel had been beat up by some bigots, Aiden had taken to patrolling of sorts. Just to keep an eye out for organized gatherings. How he had managed to squeeze it in between working as a popular bartender, training with his fellow New Mutants, and keeping Angel company was beyond his ability to consider. He just did what needed to be done.

Like tonight.

He had gotten a good idea on where a local chapter of the Friends of Humanity liked to hang out. The Mojoworlder knew about the chapter at Sara and Angel's school, but this was encroaching too close to home. While he could tell the others and they could go be proactive about it, Aiden decided to do this with sneaks and stealth.

He had on his black-lightweight hoodie as he sorted through gear on his side of his bed. While he could produce whatever hand-held weapon of hard-light, he needed help for anything at a distance. Sabotage was the game of the night, so he was carefully choosing projectiles that didn't scream ninja.

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[sonoflongshot]

Once Aiden's eyes adjusted to see darker shapes in the darkness, he silently headed for one. He picked up one of the metal folding chairs. He used the opened chair to swing it into a man's shin and make him trip over it.

The cellphone the man had been pulling out clattered to the floor.

[crawler_kid]

Angel, meanwhile, was walking on the ceiling, staying out of the way, but within easy annoyance distance. A subtle tap on the shoulder, a little shove, a little yank, even a little hair pull...

Plenty of easy distractions and no one ever thinks to look up.

[ngm_villains]

The men were getting aggravated at each other. There were blind shoves and stumbles. Their voices were getting louder, drowning out any noise from their actual assailants.

[sonoflongshot]

Aiden took to slapping dark splotches that seemed to be getting their phones out. Though as he did, he carefully worked his way toward a point beside the open door to the alley.

He knew Angel could see a lot better in the dark than him. When she got done harassing the bigots, he hoped she would wall crawl her way over to him.

[crawler_kid]

Angel had kept a careful eye on Aiden, eventually deciding that they'd have enough when she saw Aiden getting ready to move. She quickly ceiling crawled over to him.

[sonoflongshot]

Aiden couldn't see where Angel was. Though he figured she was still on the ceiling. So he put his hand up for her to grab.

He planned on going right out the open door and beating feet. Invisible. Because it would defeat the purpose of all the stealth to just waltz out without it.

[crawler_kid]

Angel dropped from the ceiling as she took his hand.

She gave it a little squeeze to let him know she was ready.

[sonoflongshot]

With a known body part in hand, Aiden willed his invisibility power to cover them both. They weren't safe yet, but he thought it was kind of nice to have a mission go off without a bodily injury happening.

He gently tugged on Angel's hand to get her closer so they both could go out the door. He would drop the invisibility when they got back to his bike.

"Almost there," he mumbled.

[crawler_kid]

Despite the seriousness of the situation, Angel could hardly keep the smile off her face. That had been entirely too much fun and, if she was forced to admit it, extremely therapeutic.

She gave his hand a reassuring squeeze as she kept up with him.