•To The Simpler Times ~Vi x F!Oc•

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"I'm not a vigilante."

We look at a specific piece of Hextech equipment and I know exactly what Vi is thinking.

"No, you're a victim."

She puts her hand into the hextech gauntlet and I see her eyes light up as it hisses and glows. We turn back to face him.

"This so people notice you when you raise your hand in the Board Room."

"We built them for mining the fissures."

"Someone close to us had a pair of these. You're the first person Caitlyn looked for when we made it to Topside."

"Of everyone up here, you're the one she trusted to do something."

He sighs again. He does that a lot. "What do you want me to do? Arrest him?"

"Silco controls the Undercity with shimmer. Shut down his supply and its only a matter of time before his own people turn on him."

"And how do we do that?" He walks close to us. He's interested.

"Take out his manufacturing facilities." Vi straticises. "Hit them hard and fast before he can react."

We sit infront of the forges flame. "So, we got a deal, pretty boy?" I ask as Vi holds out her gauntlet for the man to shake. As Vi puts her hand in her pocket, I grab it and hold it in there.

We hijack a train and fill it with enforcers, letting it crash as we enter the building. We file off the train and hold the workers at gun point.

Jayce gets off, wielding a large Hextech hammer. Vi gets off with a pair of Hextech gauntlets from before. And I wield a pair of
Hextech reinforced daggers.

Then an alarm blares suddenly and enforcers scream as they are thrown off balconies.

Guns fire and its at a group of strange mechanical shimmer monsters. They kill the men with ease. Me and Vi run around this place to get up to high ground as Jayce is about to back into one.

Vi jumps down using her gauntlet to punch it away. I jump just after stabbing one that was behind her.

We turn to smile at the Councilor and I can tell Vi winks by the cock of her head. We turn and stand back to back on this bridge thing. There were two coming up either way and we were surrounded to boot. Then we all lunge at them, I jump over the railing and onto the area they were to surround us on.

The mutants in their armor used blades as well, so I block each hit they attempt due to the sloppy nature of the beasts and quite easily create openings to stab each one.

Out of the corner of my eye, I see Vi launch one up to the ceiling and break another's blades with the gauntlets, I smile proudly.

Then I hear Jayce scream and begin to fire Hextech beams at my area and I duck quickly to the floor. He then hits a young boy and stops, watching him fall from the ledge. I look at Jayce then at the mutant he was firing at, still running, just now straight for him. I throw my dagger and watch it pierce the monster and I use a button on the dagger I'm still holding to recall it.

The battle was done, so we went to the very bottom floor where the shimmer is held. There we found the boy Jayce had hit, struggling. He breathes heavily as he watches the child die in agony. He stares at the corpse with wide eyes. He looks around to the workers who were being kept back by enforcers. He reaches down and closes the kids eyes.

"You didn't have any choice. He knew what he was signing up for."

"We're done here."

"We haven't even scratched the surface. Silco is still out there."

He sighs. Again.

"Do you not understand? I am part of this now! The next parents who get a message saying their kid isn't coming home... I don't even know where to take it. Do we just leave him here?"

"You've always been a part of this! Ever since you made Hextech. You've just never had to look it in the eye."

"One dead kid? There's hundreds more where he came from, thanks to Silco, and thanks to people like you who stuck their heads in the dirt."

Jayce shakes his head, his voice cracking slightly as he spoke. "This is over."

"Not for us." Vi argues.

She balls her gauntlet covered hand and I spin the daggers around my fingers.

"Give those back." He orders as Vi makes the steam hiss from her weapon and I throw one of mine, recalling it.

"Make us." I taunt.

"I can't let you leave with them." He sets off his axe, holding it up.

"Well, I guess you're gonna have to kill another couple of trenchers."

"And its your lucky day. These ones are a pair of lovers, prepared to die for eachother in a tragic battle."

He sighs and backs down, walking away. "You won't make it by yourselves."

Vi walks over to the dead boy and stares at him for a moment before walking over to the large vat of shimmer, smashing it.