Good as Gold by T.J. Land

Author:T.J. Land [Land, T.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2020-06-06T04:00:00+00:00

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The next day, the Sash robbed a bank. When no one but the police showed up, he let them arrest him without a word.

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The day after that, headlines announced that costumed criminals Henry X and Light Brigade had launched an assault on the penitentiary where supervillains were housed and liberated the Sash.

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And the day after that aliens invaded. Just another week in Mercy City.

Chapter 13

Two years ago

Before becoming a supervillain, the man now known to the Mercy City Police Department and the Remarkables as Henry X had felt towards the city’s superpowered population the way he imagined most people felt towards it; resentment and worship, in equal measure. It was, after all, a helluva thing to live alongside gods and monsters; people who saved or threatened the world on a daily basis; people whose lives really mattered. How many times while cooped up in his crappy apartment had he noticed one of them flying by through the window and wondered what it must be like to be that…that free. That unfettered. Far above the awful mundane shit that clogged up ordinary life, like bills and cocaine and the soul-eating grind of long-term unemployment.

Since becoming a supervillain, however, the rose-tinted spectacles had fallen away. Superheroes – with the notable exception of Goldie – tended to be arrogant, uptight assholes. Supervillains – with the notable exception of Light Brigade and the Sash – tended to be even more arrogant, even more uptight, even bigger assholes.

Tonight, Henry X was up against one of the most notorious in town.

“Eel, stop! For fuck’s sake!”

Lightning arched through the air. Henry X threw himself sideways as fast as he could and he still felt his stubble burning.

“Shit,” he hissed as the pain registered, intense enough that he almost dropped the anything-gun.

“Honey, this is getting sad,” came a singsong voice from across the empty parking lot.

“Drop dead,” he shouted, firing hydrochloric acid his way.

His opponent waited until the last possible millisecond, then converted his body into electricity and zipped out of the way. The lightning bolt crossed the parking lot in the blink of an eye, and turned back into a fey, long-haired man wearing scaled spandex and a plastic fish mask.

“While I appreciate your guts, you’re epically out of your league,” said the Eel, extending a finger and casually electrocuting him.

Lying on the ground and gritting his teeth in pain, Henry X found his point hard to refute. He’d known this would happen eventually. When you had over one hundred caped crooks packed into one town, it was inevitable that they’d spend as much time fighting each other as they did their heroic nemeses. There were only so many stores to rob, after all. But shit, the Electric Eel? Of all the costumed criminals he could have run into, why the hell did it have to be a member of the League of Larceny – and the nastiest one, at that?

The Eel raised a delicate foot and planted it on Henry X’s sternum. “While I’m not going

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