•To The Simpler Times ~Vi x F!Oc•

•27•

Me and Jinx put the helmets and masks on, cuffing Sevika to me to make it more believable before we catch one of the tram things. We step inside and sit down, both either side of me, with other enforcers in with us.

"Half eaten." Jinx grumbles still.

"Can we focus?" Sevika groans.

I nod gently to the enforcer opposite us in acknowledgement yet the response I get back was flirty and suggestive. I grimace heavily under my mask before joking reaching in a pocket and pulling out nothing but my middle finger. He looks away in disappointment.

When we pull in, I shove my head straight down. I hate this stupid prison. We walk up to the warden pushing Sevika along.

"Oh, big mama. How'd you bring her in?"

"I gave her a choice between this, or a swim in the harbour." Jinx says, deepening her voice a bit.

The warden chuckles slightly before stamping her papers. A set of doors opens behind him and out walks Ambessa. I've seen her in passing and heard about her through snippets. She's a ruthless warrior and leader. The warden nods her way and as she passes, staring us down, I do the same despite feeling extremely tense. I can hear Jinx start to cock her gun before she's startled by the warden stamping papers again.

"Cell block C. Carry on, officer."

"Yes sir."

"Go on then." I say nudging Sevika on a bit more.

The second we get in the elevator, I uncuff myself and Sevika and take out my remaining dagger, seeing as Sevika crushed my last one.

When the elevator opens, I let the other two deal with the guards there whilst I read over the several levers there. Then, all of us start to pull random ones realising they open up cell doors. I take off the uniform completely as Jinx walks through to greet everyone.

"Here I am your big fat hero!" She exclaims, throwing her helmet to the ground. When she notices the pure silence of the room, she hesitates. I think this is really making her realise what she means to Zaun. As Gert puts a gentle hand on her shoulder, she relaxes slightly. And as Gert passes her, everyone passes, first putting a gentle hand on Jinx's shoulder.

I watch Scar pass and walk straight to me, enveloping me in a hug. I chuckle slightly.

"I didn't think you liked me." I mumble.

"You're Ekko's sister, what's not to like?"

"Have you seen him?"

"... Not a trace." He says with a sigh before breaking off and walking away.

I almost shed a tear but push passed it to run to Isha's cell, where she's pulling on the bars. Jinx slides it across and smiles at the child.

"You're late for Stinkmaw's great comeupance."

Isha leaps forward and wraps her arms around Jinx's waist before Jinx kneels down and hesitantly engulfs her in an embrace. As me and Sevika approach, we smile softly at the two.

Then, the elevator opens and a group of enforcers approach, each with riot shields. Before any of us could react, a loud, harsh banging came from another elevator making us all turn our attention to it.

"The hell was that?" Sevika asks rhetorically as we all put Isha behind us and brandish our weapons.

Steam hisses from the lift as each bang creates a deeper and deeper dent. Then, the doors fly out and this mechanically clawed creature leaps out and attacks the enforcers, leaving no one alive behind it. Each swing holds as much power as the last as the red light of its contraptions make the enforcers blood fade away.

Jinx fires her Hextech gun, hitting it straight in the stomach. It growls and winces slightly before shaking it's head and continuing it's attacks. We all share concerned looks, knowing this is gonna be a hard one. It retches and growls before screaming out in both an extremely humanoid way and a way that couldn't be further from it.

Jinx looks back at us, staring a bit longer at Isha before ordering Sevika to "get her out". She shakes her head, picking up the child with her one arm and running past us.

"You two really are-"

"Big fat hero's."

I release a breath I was holding for longer than I probably should and activate my dagger simultaneously with Jinx. I watch Sevika pull Isha into a cell as the creature charges at us. I build up energy in the blade and release it, similarly to Jinx's gun. A skill I realised in that ravine.

But as its hit, it just growls and carries on charging. It barely even spares me a thought as it grabs me and throws me against the wall. But it's claws pierced my skin, practically taking a chunk out of my side. Luckily, I don't think it hit any vital organs. But as the world becomes fuzzy, blurry and muffled the last thing I hear before everything goes black is a deep, raspy voice.

"Powder."

A/N

This is immensely late I'm so sorry. Even though I've had time off I've been as busy as ever recently. But I tried to make this a bit longer to make up for the almost 4 month wait you went through.