Back Alley Brawls [Grant]

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"You all may beat me, but I'm putting you." Johna pointed at one of the larger gang members that surrounded her. "In the hospital." She smiled as a baton dropped out her sleeve and into her hand. The one she had pointed was already running the other way that left three to fight. She charged and attacked the next biggest one with everything she had.

To be fair, Johna hadn't wanted to get into a fight. She hadn't wanted to deal with crooks, and she most certainly didn't want to be back involved with Jump City's criminals so soon and not with this persona. All she had wanted to do was take pictures of the tags and find out who the local gangs were now, but alas rarely did anything go to plan for Johna anymore. Fortunately it seemed to work in her favor. It was a little strange to be back in Jump.

The last time she had been here, she had a different name, a different job, a different life. The girl she had been before was dead, long gone. It was strange, even after all this time of being dead, she couldn't remember anything from after she died, there was a rather large hole in her recollection, and when ever she tried to recall it, all she got for her troubles was a major headache.

Johna went into a slide ducking under a punch thrown at her as she smacked the second largest gang member's knees making him howl in pain. "Kill that bastard. String him up." The other two charged her with knifes. This was not how she had planned to spend her day at all. Oh well, if worse came to worse she could cheat, but she really didn't want to do that. Catastor was dead, and it would stay that way.

[Shadow]

The streets were filled with people going to wherever it was that their daily lives took them. Honestly, Grant had never much liked the hustle and bustle the main streets. It made it harder to think. He let his footsteps take him where they may and found himself in the alleyways, where he knew the city best. His footsteps echoed as he walked down an empty alley only pausing when he heard the signs of a fight from just up ahead in one of the connecting alleyways. For a moment, he wondered if a hero was beating up yet another criminal or if it was the other way around. Figuring it was a good chance to get some information, he ran ahead and took a cautious look around the corner to see what was going on.

From his perspective, he saw three big guys ganging up on one little guy. Regardless of how many times he kept telling himself to walk away, he couldn't. A sigh left escaped him and he stepped around the corner. Hands in his pockets, he didn't make a sound as he approached the big guys from behind. When he was a matter of a few feet away he took his hands out of his pockets and cracked his knuckles. "Three against one? Didn't your mother ever teach you not to pick on someone smaller than you? How about you pick on someone your own size?" The words had just barely fallen from his lips when he already rushed forward, decking the closest thug to him.

It wasn't that hard of a punch. Just enough to break the guy's nose and knock him to the ground. He held a hand up to the other two and waved at them to 'come and get him'. It was a typical taunt but always seemed to work so well on brainless thugs and even a few heroes. Grant really hadn't wanted to get in a fight today. He was still recovering from the past few nights worth of fighting and escaping. But it looked as if life had this fight in store for him and he wasn't about to walk away from it. "Hey kid, why don't you get outta here. I'll handle these guys."

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Johna slammed her back into the wall behind her, she spit some blood out her mouth and wiped her mouth on her sleeve. "That the best you got?" She stood, a rock cupped in her hand ready to jump into the brawl again. Fortunately there was a short reprieve when someone else jumped in decking one of the bigger thugs. She growled when he told her to run, oh hell no.

The two thugs were looking who they considered the bigger threat to be, the tall blonde. She came up behind one of them and knocked over the head with her rock putting him on the ground, out like a light. She turned back to the other idiot who was just coming to, and gave his a swift kick to the head.

Johna looked over at the blonde and frowned. Waiting for him to finish off the one before going to collect her broken camera and her baton. "I didn't your help. I had it handled." She sighed and looked at him again. "Thanks though."

[Shadow]

He watched the kid keep fighting and it almost made him laugh. The fact someone was so small and kept fighting even when they had the chance to run...was it stupidity or stubbornness? Or perhaps it was bravery? He didn't know but it did catch his interest. His crystal blue gaze flickered to the idiot that was now charging him. In a single fluid movement, Grant stepped to the left evading the man's punch as Grant's own right hand grabbed the fist. His other hand already on the man's stomach before flipping the guy on his back with a loud 'thwack' on the pavement. The attacker would be out for quite some time from that and when he woke, he'd be in too much pain to move.

Grant's gaze swept back to the kid, silently evaluating what he'd seen this one do. "Just because you think you have it handled doesn't mean you actually do. Keep playing hero and you're bound to get yourself killed." Though the words were clearly a warning for the kid not to get in over his head, the words had come from Grant's own experience. He ran a hand through his short blonde hair, messing it up slightly. "Don't thank me, I wasn't just going to sit by and watch a kid get attacked by some creeps."

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Johna's eyebrow twitched when he called her a kid, till it her much of a height difference there was between them as well as how she was dressed. "Stupid height problems with being short." She grumbled under her breath. "I wasn't playing hero, they started the fight, and I was just going to finish it for them. And I'm not a kid. I'm almost eighteen for peat's sake."

She looked at her broken camera and sighed before pocking the SIM card, at least that wasn't a busted up mess. She turned next to her baton and put that back in its spot up her sleeve. One small grace was her Hat hadn't come off during the fight, thankfully, otherwise their might a been a whole other slew of things to worry about. "Still regardless thanks for stepping in, some people would just stand by and watch. There were four of them but one ran off, so it might be a good time to leave incase he decides to comeback with friends." She sighed and pulled her hand out her pocket and held it out for the taller person. "I'm Johna (John), if you're hunger I can get something to eat...I don't like being indebted to people."