A cloud appeared before the knife could make contact with the man's chest,stopping the knife in place, and causing it to drop to the floor.

“I’ll distract him since I have my hoodie and a mask, Jaye’sun look for something to cover your face and meet me out here!Iris find a place to hide while we deal with this.” Bryce said suddenly.

Bryce pulled his hood up, putting on a mask before running out the door.

“Shit shit shit, where am I going to find a mask, I can’t let my identity get out that will spell disaster.” I said while scanning the room for something to grab while everyone was in a panic.

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“Hey idiot over here, if you don’t mind can you leave that poor man alone.” Bryce said smirking

“There’s 2 of you freaks now! Get me out of here” the man yelled.

“Don’t you see I’m here to protect you, now can you hurry up and get the hell out of here.” Bryce said in response.

Bryce created a cloud in front of the villain before quickly rushing in to throw a punch. But before Bryce could react he felt the fist of the villain connect with his.

“Damn what, how could you throw such a fast punch, how could you react in time to my attack, did my distraction not work at all.” 

Bryce threw another punch pretending to swing right before pulling his punch and swinging to the left. Overdrive countered the punch again, hitting Bryce hard in the chest.

“Okay really what’s going on here, this guy has super human reaction time.”

“Hey kid this is none of your business, me and you are alike so why don’t you step out the way. Can’t you see these people view us as nothing more than monsters.And from the looks of it you don’t seem much younger then I am.” Overdrive said, shaking his head.

Bryce threw a punch, using the moment of time in between to try to land a kick on Overdrive ribs.

Overdrive dodged the punch before catching Bryce’s leg and tossing him aside.

“What don’t you get, you can’t hit me if you wanted, why not just call it quits? If you want you can even join me. It's clear you're a Deviant like me.”

“No way in hell would I join some dude who harms innocent people!” Bryce countered as

he got up from the ground rushing at Overdrive before throwing a flurry of punches at the villain's face.

Overdrive just stood there weaving all the punches before throwing a quick counter at Bryce, but before it could connect he created a cloud to shield him from the attack.

His hits hurt, but not more than anything I can take, so I have to assume his Deviation doesn’t give him any strength buffs, but I can’t seem to land a hit on him no matter what I try. Bryce thought to himself.

“Why are you attacking these people? I mean they were just having a peaceful protest coming in and making a mess isn’t a good look you know.” 

He scanned the area noticing there were still a few people around, he couldn’t find Jaye’sun or Iris in the chaos but he couldn’t focus too long on that.

“So what’s your big plan, just to harm these people to get attention, you doing this makes all their beliefs seem warranted.”

“And? Why would I care what these people think of me? I lost everything because of them, I think letting off a little steam is the bare minimum.” Overdrive chuckled

Bryce threw one more punch, till his arm was grabbed by the villain and he was tossed to the ground.

I just can’t catch a break, Hurry up man I can’t do this by myself Bryce thought to himself.

Overdrive picked Bryce up by his shirt before getting ready to throw another punch. But before that could happen, he let go of Bryce quickly dodging to the left as a nearby rock landed on the ground.

“Sorry to keep you waiting” I said as I pulled up my mask,and got ready to fight.

Bryce started to laugh and so did the villain as they saw what I was wearing

“W-what is it man, it’s all I could find.”

I was wearing a bright hot pink hoodie with a dirty brown mask around my mouth.

“Dude seriously, where did you find that, and whose mom hoodie did you steal?” Bryce laughed.

“Can we focus on this dude and not what I have on.” I yelled at him.

“Am I interrupting something…” Overdrive said, trying to hold back his laugh.

“Yeah this!” I threw a punch at the villain but he dodged to the right. Bryce took the opportunity to throw another punch to the right but he ducked underneath the punch.

“That was lame as hell dude.” Bryce remarked.

Overdrive threw a punch at Bryce but I moved in front of him taking the hit.

“Sorry O-O- uhm what was your name, whatever it doesn’t matter you’re going down.”

Bryce went for another sweep kick causing the villain to jump in the air, ceasing the moment. I knew even if he can react to all attacks he can’t dodge mid air. I threw a punch swinging at the villian chest, but he grabbed onto my arm using the momentum to swing me mid air and pin me to the ground. I felt the temperature of my body start to rise.

“I’m trying to be nice, I’m going to give you kids one last chance to leave now, you’re playing a game that you don’t even understand the rules to.” Overdrive said while still holding me down.

Damn by ourselves, me and Bryce can’t do anything to this guy, even if I got my Deviation to its full output. What good does it matter if I can’t land an attack on this guy.

Bryce created a large cloud to mask himself. He attempted to grab the villain and throw him off of me. Before he could make contact with Overdrive though he was hit with another counterpunch sending him back a few feet. 

“My body is starting to get tired, I don’t know how much longer I can keep this up” Bryce stuttered.

I grabbed the villain while he was focused on Bryce, holding onto his arm tightly.

“L-leave him alone, people like you give us a bad look, if all you ever do is bring more chaos how people view us will never change, what good comes from that.” I said with my voice clearly shaken.

He grabbed my arm before punching me in the face, and tossing me back to the ground.

“Don’t ever speak about things you don’t understand, do you know what it's like to be ostrichsized from your own family? From your own community?” Overdrive said angrily.

“My Deviation doesn’t show physically and I’m still an outcast for it, I don’t even get to be truly special like some of you but I’m still treated like a monster.” he kicked on the ground as I tried to catch my breath feeling my body get hotter. 

“My Deviation is the Tier 4 Deviation Neural Acceleration. Every Neuron in my brain works in Overdrive allowing me to process perceived information at a super human speed. Every question, every action is almost painfully meaningless. It's the same as doing 2+2.” Overdrive remarked.

“Once people found out everyone turned their back on me! They called me a cheater and a fraud and all my praise as a gifted student was taken away from me. My sports achievements tossed to the side because I was blessed more than others? What’s the difference between me and other talented people? I can't control the gifts that I have.” He kicked me again, putting his foot on me.

“My own family didn’t claim me as their own, nobody wanted to be around anymore, I was alone! If I have to suffer, so does everyone else!” Overdrive pressed his foot down harder against my chest as it became harder to breathe.

I felt myself start to black out, and saw Bryce struggling to stay on his two feet.

After all this talk about becoming heroes we couldn’t even stop this one dude, I should have just stayed inside, I should have just ran.

I felt the ground began to slightly shake and notice a flower bloom from the surface of the concrete. 

“What a shame, they even convinced us to fight against each other. Maybe in the next life you and I can be friends.” Overdrive said as he raised his foot preparing to bring it down once again.

If I could just land one hit, just one I could stop him but it’s pointless. We lost, me and Bryce lost.