As you look to see Chase being placed in an ambulance, and carried in the back on a gurney. The paramedics close the back of the doors and drive off with him, the sirens going loud. Courtney only walks away not saying a word.

Y/N: Courtney, wait!

She goes invisible.

Y/N: Fuck. 

Forming the Boogie Pack, you fly off.

Timeskip. 

Only to land at SDN on the side, going underground the building to the med wing. Walking down the corridor, you see Mandy walking out the room where Chase is sitting the hospital bed with a breathing mask on his mouth, his eyes closed. Robert is just sitting next to him, stuck in grief. 

Y/N: Is he...

Mandy: Chase vitals are stable. But he's in a coma.

You sit down on a seat, hands on your lap as you take your goggles off.

Y/N: Fucking Shroud. 

Baling your fists, you grit your teeth.

Y/N: When I get my hands on that fucker, he's dead meat.

Looking to Mandy, you set a gentle hand on her shoulder.

Y/N: I know you mean well. Telling me I shouldn't kill Shroud. But he's the reason Robert lost his dad, Chase is in a bed, and Courtney and I almost went to the reaper. If he comes here looking for a fight he is not walking out alive. I swear to you. 

Mandy sighs.

Mandy: I understand. I've seen the far more unforgivable criminals in Torrance, wishing I could stop them for good with force. But that's not who I am. I know what they say about fighting monsters by being a monster, but it's a line I can't in good conscious ever cross.

Y/N: I can't blame you staying where you are, Mandy. You have a good heart. A good soul. You don't deserve to lose either one. But... find that anger. Shroud took a hit at us. We'll have to hit him back harder. I saw men like that before, that idiot doesn't give a damn about his rank and file.

Mandy: I know. But when you head out there... stay safe. Please.

Y/N: You won't have to worry. 

Leaning in, you kiss Mandy. Mandy kisses you back for a moment before you gently break away from her lips, walking out to go upstairs and into the break room.

Minutes later.

Robert is in front of the vending machine, his $5 coming back out of the slot. He slides the dollar back in only for it to go out.  Herman holds out a $5, but you put it in the microwave. 

Robert: You okay, bud?

Herman: It's just- I'm mad.

Robert: I'm mad too.

Y/N: We all are. 

Herman: I can't... it's not fair. Courtney was the one who- and then Chase shouldn't've- 

Herman looks to Robert.

Herman: Do you think he did the right thing? I mean... it's all so unclear.

Robert: Of course he did. If he didn't move, Courtney and Y/N would both be lost to Shroud. I think Chase knew he was the only one who could save them, even while knowing the risks. I think he did the right thing. 

Robert takes the $5 and puts it in the machine for the twinkie to fall, only for it to be stuck. Balling your fist, you punch right through the glass, and, forcefully bend the metal off, taking the twinkie to hand to Robert.

Robert: Uh.. feel better?

Y/N: I pictured my fist going through that fucker Shroud's face. It was therapeutic. 

You flick your hand around, the glass falling on the floor as the nanites repair your hand. 

Herman: I'll clean it up. 

You then leave SDN, hopping on the Sky Slyder to take off into the air, your goggles on your face.

Robert goes back to his desk to sit at it, putting his headset back on.

Robert: Hey, so you've all probably heard some version of what happened. But let's get to it. main takeaways are that Invisigal has been suspended so we're down a person this shift. Chase is still in the infirmary, and... he's in pretty rough shape. Despite his disposition, he really likes you all and appreciates the hard work you've done. Just don't tell him I told you that. I've found out that doing something good always helps when I'm feeling bad. We're fortunate to have that opportunity. Something Chase never took for granted.

You're just looking over Torrance, sitting on the edge with Tora, smoking a blunt. Breathing the smoke into the rain. You pass it to Tora, who also takes a hit.

Robert: So, let's get to work. 

Tora looks to you.

Tora: How did you live?

Y/N: Luck, Tora. Shroud would've put one in my head, but that bastard wanted to watch me suffer.

Malevola: If I was there, I would've made sure the thralls of hell got their meal off of him for getting his hands on you guys.

Golem: I can't help but agree with you there. Shroud has to go.

Hour after hour passes. You, the Z-Team, and others outside Torrance manage to hit the Red Ring wherever they are. Going all out, making sure they get the same pain that You, Chase, and Courtney received. In the end of the shift, the Z-Team rallies in the conference room. 

Walking back into SDN, about to walk out with Robert and Beef after getting a drink, Colm is tossed out the door. You and Robert look back at the chaos before walking in.

Malevola: You got a little...

Colm: Oh. Cheers lass. Good looking out.

The glass pushes out from Colm's arm and falls on the floor. 

Y/N: God, which one of you guys threw Colm? 

Colm: Nobody did. 

Robert: Are you concussed? You gaslighting us? We just saw you fall-

Golem; I kicked him through the door. 

Y/N: Alright. So here's the why. Why?

Colm: Ah, just a difference of opinion. I got heated, got right in Golem's face. He had every right to punt me through the door. 

Robert: Right. It's a door I doubt you were actually in his face. 

Alice: More like an ankle. Which made him easier to kick. 

Robert: What the fuck is going on?! 

Alice: We want her out. 

Y/N: The hell? You guys can't be serious.

Victor: We basically took a board vote. It's why we're in the boardroom. 

Herman: I... voted. For mostly good. I-I know how much Visi means to you.

Y/N: No no no no, what happened wasn't her fault. If Courtney and I weren't there, Shroud would've gotten away with the Pulse. 

Alice: Chase is still in that bed. Doesn't change the facts.

You sigh in frustration.

Robert: Who wants her to stay?

Tora, Bruno, Chad, Janelle, Malevola and Herman raise their hands.

Y/N: Who wants her gone?

Everyone else raises their hands.

Malevola: She meant no harm. Y/N is right. 

Janelle: All the way. We should've joined her and Court that night. 

Golem: I'm in the same boat. The team is more important than any of us but I won't stand in the way.

Colm: You could've lead with that. 

Chad: I feel the same way as Bruno. You all let me back in when you didn't have to. But I won't make you keep someone you want gone. 

Alice: We all heard about that suspension. It's bullshit, and it's not enough, Robert. Not for what she did. To put everything we've been building at risk, and for what? I like the bitch, but she has to go. Fully. Just like Hunter. 

Y/N: No. No fuck that. If she goes, I'm gone too.

Alice: Y/N honey, I know you have history with her being childhood sweethearts and all, but you know what they say about the backstabbers. Always smiling in your face and shaking your hand with a knife in their other hand.

Y/N: I don't give a shit about whatever else she might've did in her past after we got split up. My point still stands, Alice. I know her better than anyone else in this room. Even if it was for a few months. If you're not happy about it, then it is what the fuck it is. She's staying here.

Robert looks at the team with a stern look. 

Robert: Look, I probably don't say this enough, but I'm proud of all of you. How far you've come. A few months ago you wouldn't've been in a room like this discussing the needs of the Z-Team and if you did there'd be a lot more than one broken door. But I am not cutting Courtney. We don't kick people when they're down. We lift them up. And I believe of her what I believe of all of you; that her heart is still in the right place. It's what took us from being a team, to being this weird, fucked up family. 

Silence.

Robert: Look, you're hurting. I get it. We all are. But now is not the time to cast blame. It's the time to come together and heal. 

You then see the door moving and closing on its own. Robert walks out as Malevola grabs your shoulder.

Malevola: Go. Talk her into staying. And if she goes... well, we can always find her.

Malevola kisses your cheek as you walk out and go downstairs to the locker room.

Minutes later.

Except for Beef, you and Robert look around for Courtney. 

Y/N: Court? 

The two of you walk into Courtney changing. Robert is quick to look away.

Robert: Ah shit, I can come back later. 

Courtney: Why? First time we met you were in your underwear. Fitting, right? Last time you see me that I'd be in mine. I heard everything they said. They don't have to worry about me getting fired, I'm gone. 

Y/N: Courtney... I'm a ride or die in your favor. I'd never switch up on you. Not now. Not ever. 

Robert: And I care about you. A lot, okay? Just as friends. Can't have you walking out of her not knowing that. I tried my best with you. I think I tried the most with you, but my support won't stop anytime soon.

Silence. Courtney takes off her shirt.

Y/N: Court...

Courtney: They're right. I don't deserve anyone's forgiveness, help, or love. because I can never repay it-

You place a hand on her arm.

Y/N: Fuck what they say. I know we bled with them, but I won't let the choices of the others ruin what I have with you. That's not what's happening here. 

Courtney smiles at you. 

Courtney: I love you, Y/N. I really do. But nothing will ever make up for what I did to Robert.

Your eyes widen.

Y/N: What? What'd you do to Robert-

Courtney: I'd hoped getting the astral pulse back would've helped him but... we all saw where that went. 

Robert: Courtney, you don't owe anyone anything. Least of all, me. 

Courtney: I was there that night. 

Robert: What are you saying?

Y/N: Courtney, what night? 

She closes the locker door. You look down to notice red glowing cybernetics underneath her breasts. 

Courtney: I started to run with crews years after meeting Y/N. Always did my own thing. But my asthma was getting worse, and the Ring had a piece of chrome that could increase my lung capacity. Only catch is, I'd have to work for them. Paying it down for years.

Y/N: Then... how could I not see it before?

Courtney: State of the art imitation tech, babe. Whatever you felt was fake, it only covered up the augment with skin to fool your eyes too. Then one day Shroud came to me and said the debt would be cleared entirely if I was able to do one thing.

Robert keeps his eyes on Courtney.

Robert: ...You were the reason my mech went down.

Courtney: I was. I'm sorry. I quit the moment I placed it. I walked out before it even blew. After that, my chrome conveniently stopped working. Signed up for the Phoenix Program the next day. Which basically gave me two times to fuck up your life twice. 

She puts her shirt back on. Robert gets close but not too close as you follow.

Robert: I forgive you. So there. Will you chill out now? 

Y/N: If it helps, I do as well.

Courtney: That's not how it works. Neither of you boys can't forgive me. You haven't even like... processed what's going on. 

Y/N: Fuck the process. I've seen enough loss for a lifetime. Having you walk out on the SDN is something that I absolutely will not stand for. No matter how much noise Alice and Victor make.

Robert: You did villain shit while you were a villain. Does it change things that you directed at me? No. It doesn't. It's in the past. You're not the same person that was there that night. Neither am I. 

Courtney: That's sweet but... all I wanted was to find an honest crew to really fall back on. To trust. The Red Ring were bozos I never trusted in the slightest, and were eager to cut ties with. 

Y/N: Courtney, you know I'm here. I'm your old standby. I love you.

Courtney: You always were, Y/N. Since the day we met.

Courtney grabs her bag and goes invisible as she walks off. Robert places a hand on your shoulder.

Robert: Think she'll stay?

Y/N: It's bound to happen-

You're cut off as Courtney kisses you while invisible. She goes visible as she keeps kissing you deeply. You lean into the kiss, grabbing her hips as she moans softly into the kiss, adding tongue. Tora comes in.

Tora: Guys? Everything going well down here- oh.

Courtney breaks the kiss as you look to Tora.

Courtney: Nice to see you too, Tor.

She goes invisible and leaves. For real this time. 

Tora: You doing okay, Robert?

Robert: Mostly.

Tora and Robert kiss. You walk off.

Robert: Y/N? Where are you off to?

Y/N: To get wasted. Tora, keep him away from any all booze. Do hugs with him, not drugs.

You vanish into the shadows, putting the goggles on to leave the locker room and form the Speed Bike, zooming away.

Timeskip. 

You're back to the Sardine, dressed in a different fit to throw the Red Ring off. 

Red Ring goon: That bitch Courtney really cried over that old fuck Trackstar? Ha! It's survival the fittest. Bitch should have never turned on us.

You glare at the goon. 

Y/N: Shut the fuck up.

Goon: Huh? The fuck you say to me?

Y/N: You heard me, dumbass.

The goon pulls a knife on you, only to get shot by one of your blaster rifles, sending him into a wall. Everyone else in the bar isn't fazed. But then the TV flashes Blonde Blazer, addressing the situation. The headline reads "TRACKSTAR WOUNDED IN DUTY."

Bartender: Huh. I'd love to motorboat those tits-

Y/N: I don't wanna hear your lip either, your emaciated John Economos looking motherfucker.

Bartender: Alright, guess someone's a little fucking uppity-

You stare at him, glassing him. The bartender falls over the ground as another man hops over the counter.

Y/N: The fuck did I just say?

Man: Good on you for not taking shit from anyone else, kid. But I prefer to do things this way. 

The bartender death glares at you, only for the man to quickly shoot the bartender in the head killing him. 

Man: I respect her, Blazer. A real fucking superhero. I know we're in a villain bar but, have some class you know? If you're gonna blow some fucker's brains out non slip mats are a must. 

You see the man turn his head towards you and you quickly realize.

Y/N: Shroud!

You start to form the BFS, but Hunter zooms over to you, breaking your arm as you shout in pain. You form the Punk Busters, only to have Toxic melt through them. You are then slammed back onto the ground.

Y/N: Shroud! You're fucking DEAD!

Shroud: We're all gonna die, Y/N. It's best to be you first. 

He kicks you in the face knocking you out. 

An hour or so later, you've been hung upside down with top on, and beaten to near death. You look up to see scars and cuts all over your chest from the top down to your stomach. Looking over, you see Robert, also hung upside down.

Shroud: You, the Robertsons, Chase, the little team you're in-

Shroud cuts you up as you scream in pain, gritting through in with anger.

Shroud: You think you can beat the bad by being good, but there is no solving human nature. 

He then turns around to face you once you open your eyes.

Shroud: All you can do is control it.

Y/N: I can control... this fucking blade going through your neck, and using your head as a soccer ball. 

Shroud: Funny.

Shroud pistol whips you several times, you only spit blood in his face.

Y/N: Is that all you got? HUH?!

Shroud backs up a bit, only to kick you in the face, breaking your jaw. Your nanites are already working on healing you. 

Hunter: This little shit has got to be lucky. Those nanites would save him forever. 

Shroud gets on his knee, staring in Robert's eyes. 

Shroud: This is the gun I used to kill your father. kept it in his locker. Fully loaded. 6 shots. He couldn't have predicted that I'd use it to kill him. The first round grazed his shoulder. I hadn't even adjusted the adrenaline spike. The 2nd hit his chest. The 3rd burst his heart. He was lying there. Eyes full of fear when I put the 4th through his face.

Robert: Fuck... you...

Shroud only points his gun at you. 

Shroud: Your invisible girlfriend stole my astral pulse to give it to Robert. Where the fuck is it?

You merely place your head against the gun.

Y/N: I won't snitch, dickhead. So go on, put a bullet in my head and see if you'd take me out the frame. Or are you too pussy to shoot me and see the full wrath of the Torrance branch crash down upon you? 

Shroud pulls the trigger. You don't even flinch.

Y/N: I've seen the most fucked up cases during my time under Providence. You don't scare me. 

Robert: And if I had it... why'd I let you string me up... like a fucking piñata? She didn't get the pulse. 

Y/N: Cause you stole it from her, you idiot.

Shroud: You boys actually believe that. Show 'em. 

A holographic screen is shown with you and Courtney stepping out. 

Shroud: Invisibitch has the pulse. That I know. What I don't know is why she didn't give it to you. 

The footage zooms in, Courtney quickly opens the case as you're on look out. 

Shroud: She played you too. Here I am thinking she's working with you, but she's fucking us both. She didn't take it for your little crew of good Samaritans. She took it for herself. 

Y/N: You're still wrong. Robert's gonna get his mech back, and you'll wish you hadn't killed Robert's dad. 

Shroud only looks down at you.

Shroud: Your hope's going to run dry soon, Y/N. And when it does, I'll be the one to put you and Robert out of your misery.

Y/N: And I'll be the one to skewer your ass like a winged beast!

The sounds of fighting are heard outside. Shroud gets up and steps to the side as the frozen door goes flying into the bar. And in comes a very pissed off Blonde Blazer and Ice. 

Shroud: The Blonde Blazer. Didn't expect a plus one.

Ice: Denne «pluss én»-en kan fortsatt fryse hjertet ditt til is før du rekker å si et ord til, din egoistiske drittsekk!
[This "plus one" can still freeze your heart before you can let out another word, you egotistical dipshit!]

Shroud: I fired the bartender. But I can still get you and your friend something to drink. 

Blonde Blazer: No thank you.

Blonde looks over to see Hunter glaring at her.

Shroud: Then what do I owe the pleasure?

Blonde Blazer: I'm here for them. And if you don't go, Ice here can and will freeze your bodies to the point where you're all just walking popsicles. 

Ice steps forward. 

Ice: Come now. You men must have wives and children to go back to, yes? You wouldn't want to end up on the news for something stupid. 

Some of the men in the bar are struck with unease.

Hunter: Don't listen her. She's fucking bluffing-

Shroud only stares at Hunter which shuts him up. He backs up and leaves before Shroud turns to Blonde.

Shroud: Sorry about that. If they weren't shit, you wouldn't have cut them. You were saying? 

Blonde Blazer: I can see I'm outnumbered, but still. Ice itself is a faster killer than fire. So if any of you want to live, you'll leave. Now. But for those who still think being brave is a wise choice...

She closes her eyes and opens them.

Blonde Blazer: I'll take a lot of you with me.

Blonde floats in the air with Ice. 

Blonde Blazer: So again. You all can leave with your lives intact, or half of you will lose them.

Shroud only claps his ass off with his hands.

Shroud: Now that's a fucking superhero. Chills. Top notch. Alright. We're gone.

The Red Ring leaves the bar, but Shroud looks to Blonde.

Shroud: Now's not our time, Blazer. But it's coming sooner than you think. And by my calculations it was closer by 32% But half sounds better.

He leaves with Hunter. Ice wastes no time to form ice blades, cutting you and Robert free. Tora catches Robert as Mandy catches you. 

Y/N: Knew you'd scare them shitless...

Robert: You saved me... again.

Mandy: Yeah, you should really sign up for this SDN service I keep hearing about-

Tora slaps Robert, but then kisses him.

Robert: I deserve that.

Tora: Ikke gjør noe sånt igjen, Robert. Jeg holdt på å drepe meg selv hvis de tok deg fra meg.
[Don't you ever do something like this again, Robert. I was about to kill me a bitch if they took you from me.]

Robert: No need to tell me twice.

As Mandy holds you, Tora is holding Robert. Tora grabs your jacket and wraps it around your chest as she flies you out. Mandy follows.

Minutes later.

The 4 of you are sitting on a familiar billboard. 

Robert: Are you sure he's right about Courtney?

Y/N: No. Not ever.

Mandy: What's her play? Why wouldn't she tell you she has it?

Y/N: Way I see it, she's out to give Shroud the ultimate middle finger by putting the pulse in Rob's mech. That way, when Shroud tries some shit, he's losing. 

Robert lays back. 

Robert: i just gotta be here for a few weeks. Then I'll be right as rain. 

Mandy: Take your time. I don't how either of you are still conscious.

Y/N: We're hard bastards, Robert and I. Shroud's gonna take more than a bar full of idiots to stop us. 

Robert: And when the pain's constant, it's easier to get used to. Physical and emotional. 

Tora: Amen.

Robert: Tora, Mandy, I don't remember if I ever thanked you two before but... thank you. 

Mandy: You muttered it about 50 times on the way here. 

Robert: Then I take it back. 

Tora: We were going to take you boys to the Hollywood Sign. 

Mandy: Eh, it's not as sturdy as you think-

An explosion goes off. You, Tora, and Mandy float up. Followed by several more erupting. Many fires are set as Robert gets on his feet. 

Y/N: That motherfucker! 

Robert coughs. 

Robert: Hey. 

He holds his hand up.

Robert: You're not leaving me here again.

Mandy only smiles. Grabbing his hand. You and Tora hold his other arm.