TL&TOHJ~Hope: Incentive

That night, after the police left, I laid down in my bed. The sounds of my parents crying and trying to comfort each other, made me angrier and angrier. Candy stayed at my request, mainly to comfort me. I snuck out of my bed and went to Butch's room. It was a cool room. Race cars and Transformers covered the walls. The little Bumblebee car was the bed, which I thought was pretty cool looking, despite all my ignoring of it. I saw a picture of Butch from a recent class photo. I picked it up and looked at it for a minute. I sighed and went back to my room.


Candy was awake. "Hey, what's going on?" she whispered. I opened my window silently, like I have dozens of times. I clicked my bracelet and turned into my Hero form. Candy made a panicky whisper, "What are you doing?" I put one foot on the window ledge, and over my shoulder I said, "Hunting." With that, I flew out into the night.


I dive-bombed the first street gang I saw. I screamed, "Where is he?!!!" I started tossing them around. One of them said, "He who?!" But you know thugs like this. They lie till the very end.


I grabbed one of them by the scruff of his neck and lifted him from the ground. I took the picture of my pocket and resisted the urge to shove it down his throat. "This boy here! You remember him? Or do you need more incentive?" The thug looked at the picture. "I swear to God, I don't--"


I didn't let him finish. I dropped him to the ground and flew off to find other criminals. After flying around for a while, I saw a big man in a trench coat. He had a tail sticking from the bottom. Rex. If he's back then he has to be behind Butch.


I tackled him and ripped off his hat and coat. I saw fear in his eyes. He said, "Hey. Hey! I didn't even do anything yet!" I said, "I'm taking you down, Rex! Give back my brother before I rip out your spine and beat you with it! Give back Butch!"


He tried to throw me off. "What are you talking about?! Help!" I finally beat him down and flipped him to his back. "This kid! You remember!?" I hung the picture in his face. He shook his scaly head quickly. "I never saw the brat before in my--Ack!" I grabbed him by his throat and chucked him as hard as I could. I better get going. I have an entire city to comb through before morning.