The Watch Dogs

                                    

                                          
A few hours before the start of the mission...
An armored truck came to a sudden stop as it rammed into something in the middle of the road. The car was one of the kinds that escorted money between banks. It was made to be strong and sturdy, yet the thing it rammed into was simply stronger.
Cinder gritted her teeth and held her arms up in front of her, feeling the truck shatter and bend around her as she took it head-on. She knew that she had been growing stronger every day as her powers got more and more used to her being a Super, but ever since she had learned of her golden form from Mr. Larison and seen the past with Max Lightning, her power had skyrocketed. She was sure she could even level a small building if she really wanted to.
The truck was forced to stop as her durability and strength outweighed it. Smoke rapidly spewed from the front of it, and the doors were thrown open as men stumbled out. She opened her mouth to say something, but they opened fire on her, the bullets bouncing off of her skin. She spat a few of them out and made a face. They tasted nasty.
The men spread out and kept firing at her as she ripped her way out of the car. She didn't bother attacking them. They already lost. From above, Snowdawn came crashing down, sending out a wave of snow that smothered itself over most of the men and shoved them to the ground. "Nice try Wandering Coin!" Snowdawn announced loudly. "You guys are already on thin ice, we're not letting you get away with all this money! Thin ice? Eh? Get it? Ice pun-"
A red blur flew past Snowdawn as Battery zipped forward with inhuman speed and left all the men; he touched and knocked out with simple takedown moves. One of the grunts turned and tried to run away but suddenly stopped when Whisper appeared in front of him and jammed her taser into his neck. The roof of the van dented a bit as Myth suddenly crashed down from above, turning his flight form off. He looked down at the dozen or so Wandering Coin members that had been piled in the truck moments ago.
"Good work. That's our third group tonight." The leader of Pantheon grunted out. "Looks like they're getting bolder."
"It's about time you called a meeting, Myth." Cinder said, plopping down on the body of one of the snow-trapped men. School had just ended when she got the call—due to the incident with the student, class had once again been canceled. All Pantheon members were to meet at their base. Myth had quickly gotten them to go out in the field dressed in their costumes, where they had spent most of the night stopping the many members of the Wandering Coin.
"I have been busy dealing with things," Myth said, waving off her comment. "Zoo and Bad Timers have pretty much vanished since last month. Even their non-powered grunts aren't making any moves. The Wandering Coin is another matter."
"We need to stop them!" She declared. From what Max Lightning and Jack had told her, the Lord of Life was likely either the leader of the Wandering Coin or in the possession of the leader. The sooner she got her hands on that Lord, the sooner she could make them heal her father.
"And we will," Whisper said, patting her shoulder. "But we have some things we need to go over first."
"Like what?" Snowdawn asked. "There isn't much to it, right? We just keep taking their bases down and stop them when they pop up like this." He kicked out with his foot, nudging the head of one of the men Battery had knocked out.
"It isn't that easy." Myth sighed. "For one, the Hero Branch doesn't exactly like me, and since I'm running a group, that leads to them not liking Pantheon. On top of that, we've been requested to stop what we're doing by Ms. Laps."
"Who's that?" She never heard of that name before, but the way Thaddeus said it, she was guessing this 'Laps' person was important.
Battery shuddered a bit and folded his arms. "She's someone you don't want to get on the bad side of. All ten main cities in the world have their own Enforcer member. Ours has Old Dog. Each Enforcer member also has their own team. Old Dog leads Watch Dogs. Every city also has its own Sub Enforcers. All of these are managed by the Hero Branch. In total, there are eighteen official hero teams. Victorian doesn't have a team that she leads, and both Rose and Lillian don't have the Sub Enforcers either. So, eight Sub Enforcers, and nine adult hero teams, plus the Enforcers. Because of how many there are and how split they are, each city has its own Hero Branch. Oleander's Branch is led by Laps."