Chapter 4: The start of the plot
(Time skip 1 week)
During the 1 week Cyrus had to prepare himself. He experimented with his base symbiont abilities.
As Cyrus wasn't the type to hid his strength or abilities, everyone knew he wasn't totally human.
For those who expressed a hostile approach towards him after gaining there new found knowledge of his... uniqueness. They ended up going missing overnight.
Nobody knew what exactly happened to those that disappeared, but they all understand what was the most likely cause of the disappearances.
But as most of the people that disappeared were that ones that made problems for everyone.
Almost everyone didn't care enough to ask questions about there whereabouts.
(Present time)
Currently, Cyrus was experimenting with his powers. As well as having Powder almost always with him.
She was either talking to him, tinkering with her bombs and other gadgets, or just enjoying being with her new friend.
Even though it had only been a week, Powder was starting to enjoy being with Cyrus. Even more so then being with her sister.
Which sometimes confused Cyrus as they had only known each other for a week.
He just chalked it up to her attachment and abandonment issues.
But he couldn't talk, considering he himself had some pretty heavy mental health issues.
But hey, that's what makes life more fun right?
Though he was confused Cyrus definitely wasn't complaining. On the contrary, he was ecstatic that he got to be with Powder more often.
As Jinx was his all time favorite in the show, in more ways then one.
As Cyrus and Powder are talking, the door swings open as Vi enters, with Mylo and Claggor in tow.
Vi, already used to Cyrus's weirdness looks at both Cyrus and Powder and says "Are you guys ready to head out? Remember, Vander can't know about this yet, so we will have to sneak out"
Powder hearing this gives Vi a slightly nervous nod of her head and says "I'm ready to go, what about you Cyrus?"
Cyrus, still practicing with his powers turns his hand into a black and purple sword made up of biomass and says with a bloodthirsty smirk that scares all but Powder "Oh, I'm as ready as I'll ever be"
Seeing the smile on Cyrus's face that promised bloodshed. Vi, Mylo, and Claggor all get the chills.
Vi quickly sensing the thoughts inside of Cyrus's head says "There will be none of that today do you hear me Cyrus, NONE!"
Cyrus shows a face of pure disappointment and mumbles "your no fun"
Powder, being the only one close enough to hear what Cyrus said starts to giggle lightly.
She pats Cyrus on the head saying "You'll be fine Cyrus, you can have your fun when we get back."
Vi seeing this is none to pleased and walks out of the room saying "We are leaving, if you want to be left behind, stay there"
Powder hearing this, jumps up to her feet, grabs her things then grabs Cyrus and they start running after Vi, Mylo, and Claggor.
Once Powder and Cyrus caught up to them, they all snuck out the back of the tavern.
(About an hour later)
Vi was leading the way as they all were climbing up the side of a building.
She looks down at them and says "We're almost there".
While she's looking down at then, trying to see how they are faring with the climb.
She notices that Cyrus was nowhere to be seen.
Only for her to look up and see him already at the top, waiting for them.
Vi just sighs and continues climbing while periodically checking on Powder.
After they all reach the top, Vi calls out to both Powder and Cyrus saying "Hey Powder, Cyrus, come take a look".
Vi points to the giant buildings in the middle of Piltover as well as the huge air ships flying around them.
Power walks up besides her sister and all she can say is "Whoa"
At the same time, Cyrus walks up next to Powder but remains silent. He has seen buildings tens of times larger and city's a hundreds of times more advanced.
But he had to admit, it was still an impressive sight to behold.
Just as Cyrus was about to speak, a giant Airship flew right above their heads.
Powder, amazed by the giant ships that could fly high in the sky says "One day I'm going to ride in one of those things."
As she finishes speaking Mylo walks Infront of them, making a gun with his fingers and says "And one day, I'm gonna shoot one of them down."
Vi hearing this starts walking to there destination but not without first smacking Mylo's hand down in annoyance.
Cyrus, hearing Mylo's words, acts with both speed and precision by turning his arm into a small tendril and smacking the back of Mylo's head.
Before Mylo could process what happened Cyrus had already reverted his arm back to normal and had started walking forward with Powder.
Claggor concerned if they can even pull this job of says "Vi, are, are you sure about this? Look if we get caught we're--"
Vi jumped onto another roof and said "We're not going to get caught. We'll be in and out before anyone notices."
As she is saying that, she approaches one of the sides of the roof and says "All right, everybody, follow me... Just don't look down."
Once she finishes speaking she jumps and slides down the side of the roof being stopped by the gutter.
As she's standing on the gutter for about half a second she jumps and grabs a windows ledge and steps on the railing beneath it.
She lowers herself onto the small window balcony with her hands grabbing the railing. Once she's ready, she jumps over to the roof across from her and lands nicely.
Both Mylo and Claggor copy the route and successfully make it across.
Claggor looks to Vi and says "Couldn't we have at least just walked there?"
Vi gives Claggor a quick look and says " Gotta stay out of sight for this one."
Vi looks back to Powder who is looking scared of the jump.
Powder looks down from the 3-4 story roof she is on and gets slightly frightened.
Cyrus, with his enhanced physique and abilities has found this extremally easy. But he understands that Powder is a normal Human right now and she might need some help.
Cyrus walks up to her and says with a smile "I'll be right behind you, so don't worry. No matter what happens I'll be there to catch you."
Powder hearing this visibly calms down and responds with a slight giggle "If i fall you better catch me."
Cyrus nodes his he and gestures for her to go.
Powder takes a deep breath and jumps. Though she is physically smaller then the others, she still manages to get down onto the window balcony.
She leans slightly forward and jumps across. She just barely makes it but starts to fall backwards over the edge.
But as she's about to fall. She is caught by Cyrus who Says "See, i told you i would be there. Cupcake?"
As Powder was jumping, Cyrus was already on the balcony eating the plate of cupcakes that was on it.
Ready to intervene if anything happened.
Powder seeing that she was still in his embrace quickly removed herself. She was blushing very heavily and quietly said "Thanks Cyrus"
In response, all Cyrus did was Smile which made Powder blush even harder. If that were even possible.
Vi, who is now perpetually annoyed at Cyrus for being to close to her sister, clears her throat and says "Lets get a move on guys."
Ten minutes of travel by rooftop brought them just about right on top of the apartment they intended to rob.
Claggor concerned about Vander again looks at Vi and says "What if Vander finds out we're all the way up here?"
Vi points around and says "Look around. You think anyone topside's going hungry? Besides, this is exactly the sort of job Vander would've pulled when he was our age."
Vi being slightly annoyed continues "I'm going. Are you with me or not?"
Claggor looks at Mylo who shrugs and Claggor just sighs and says "Vander's going to kill us"
Vi quickly responds with "Yeah, only if we screw up... So don't screw up."
As she finishes talking Vi jumps down on to the balcony below.
She quickly checks the windows to see if anybody was home but luckily for them no one was there.
Once she confirms there is nobody, she says to the rest of the group "All clear."
As she finishes saying that, Mylo quickly jumps down and approaches the door.
He tries to open the balcony door but its locked "Who locks there balcony?" Mylo says with annoyance.
He kneels down and takes out what seems to be a lockpick and tries to unlock the door.
As Mylo was trying to unlock the door, Cyrus easily makes it onto the balcony and turns around to help Powder.
Once Powder was safely on the balcony, Claggor hopped down to join the rest of them.
Claggor looks over the balcony's rail and says "There's tons of enforcers down there."
Vi takes a quick peek and responds with "Means we're in the right place."
After saying that, she looks to Mylo and says "You gonna get that door open any time soon?"
Mylo, who is struggling with picking the lock angrily says "Working on it. Seeing as I'm the only one who knows how to pick locks, I suggest--"
Before he could finish talking, Vi kicks the door in.
As everyone is walking in Mylo can only mutter "Animals."
When everyone entered the room they were all stunned.
There were hundreds of different objects of varying shapes and sizes scattered around the room.
Vi quickly drops there bag in the middle of the room and goes to look for anything of value.
As they are looking around, Mylo makes the remark "You know, Claggor, for once your right. We are definitely not supposed to be here."
After saying this, Mylo grabs two small objects on the table and throws them in the bag.
Everyone besides Cyrus and Powder follow suit.
They start emptying drawers into the bag and anything that looked somewhat valuable.
Vi sees a blackboard on the wall with a bunch of different equations and drawings.
As she's looking at them she says to herself "Must be an inventor."
As everyone is looking for stuff to throw in the bag.
Powder spots an interesting little trinket she seems to recognize "Whoa, i think this is a real Valdiani."
As she says that she clicks a button and it seems to come to life as a mini star system appears spinning and producing music.
While everyone was occupied looking for things to steal.
Cyrus used this chance to slip away into the back room where the unstable Hex crystals were.
He walks over to the chest containing them and proceeds to push the button on the back of the chest and watches as the lid slowly opens.
Seeing the six crystals inside the chest, he quickly swipes 2 of them and sends them to his inventory.
He quietly closes the chest and returns to the main room with the rest of the group.
As he walks back into the room nobody seems to have noticed that he was gone.
He walks over to Powder and says "What did you find?"
Powder hearing this looks at Cyrus and blushes slightly as the memory from earlier was still fresh on her mind.
She shows him what she found and says "Its a Valdiani. A rare and expensive little music box."
Cyrus hearing this give her a slight smile and says "You probably are going to find us all the good items. Mylo over there can't even tell the difference between a nose hair trimmer and a taser."
As he was saying this, milo speaks loudly and points an object out Infront of him saying "Oh, yeah? What about this?"
Powder realizing what Cyrus said was completely accurate, started to laugh.
As she was laughing she Looked over at Mylo and said "That's a nose hair trimer."
As Powder finished speaking Vi came up behind Powder and Cyrus and said "Keep an eye out for anything that looks valuable, Powder, Cyrus. Before Mylo fills the bag with junk."
Mylo hearing this shrugs his shoulders and throws the trimmer behind him.
Mylo looks at the desk that is right next to him that has a bunch of papers on it.
As he is clearing the papers from the desk he uncovers a strange device with a blue crystal in the middle of it.
Uncertain of what it is he calls out to the others "Uh... guys?"
Claggor coming over and looking at the device asks Vi "Wait, Vi, how the hell did we find this place?"
As Claggor is talking Mylo touches the blue crystal and a small visible spark of some kind of electricity appears and lightly shocks Mylo.
Vi, looking confused says "It was a tip from little Man."
Mylo asks questionably "Little Man?"
Vi quickly responds "Just leave it. Come on"
As they leave the device alone and continue looting the room.
Powder finds the back room that Cyrus had snuck into earlier.
As she walks down the hallway, Cyrus spots her leaving and follows behind her to the room.
When both Cyrus and Powder entered the room, they saw it was a mess.
It seemed to be the bedroom of whoever was living there.
But what caught Powders interest the most was the two sandwiches laying on the table.
She walked over and grabbed both of them. She handed one to Cyrus which he happily obliged.
When Powder bite into the sandwich, she tasted so many flavors that she had rarely ever experienced before while living down in the Undercity.
As she was about to take another bite she noticed the chest that Cyrus had snagged the HexTech crystals from.
She moved closer to it and started trying to open it but it wouldn't budge.
As it was not opening she started to trace her fingers along the sides and edges of the box
After a minute of searching she finally found the button.
Once the box was open, she looked inside and found 4 Blue crystals. They were just like the one in the strange device earlier.
Powder picked one up and asked Cyrus "What do you think they are?"
Cyrus playing dumb says "I don't know, but they look valuable."
Powder nodes and continues looking at them in fascination.
Meanwhile in the other room they were still tossing things into the bag.
Vi caught a golden colored ball that Mylo had tossed to her.
As she was about to put it into the bag, she heard faint noises coming from the front door.
She saw through the small window in the door that the owner had returned.
Vi quickly signaled to Mylo "Mylo, the door."
Mylo understanding the potential danger quickly grabs a chair and runs to the door.
Stuffing the top of the chair under the door handle as to block the owner from entering.
Vi quickly runs to the back room and says "Powder, Cyrus, we gotta go."
Cyrus hearing this quickly turns his arm into the sword form and looks at Vi with a wide smile.
Vi, however was not amused "Cyrus, NO!"
Cyrus again was sad. He looked at Powder and said "Let's go."
Powder quickly grabs the last 4 crystals and runs after Vi and Cyrus but what she didn't realize was that she had dropped one, as she was putting them in her pouch.
Once everyone was back in the main room Vi said "We'll be fine. Just get back on the roof."
The owner had started to try and kick in the door down as to try and find out who was in his home.
But just as the door was about to be kicked open the crystal that had been dropped exploded.
And it took with it a huge chunk of the wall and balcony.
Sending debris flying onto the street.
All Vi could say seeing this was "Shit"