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Hawk was tearing up his wardrobe when Ducky called. He had already torn through everything else in his room, and the shakanium wardrobe was the only thing able to withstand more than a few hits. He paused his activities to pick up the call.
"Hey, where are you? We said we’d meet up in the cafe. I’ve been here for half an hour."
"I got grounded for saying I was going to fight Cenn." His voice came out more as his natural clicking language, as it usually did when he was upset. Luckily, Ducky learned his native language back in elementary school. They wanted to have a secret language and decided to use his since no one else alive spoke it. They found out a few years later that Cenn did know it and had been listening in on them. Apparently ze even gave Ducky the physical ability to speak it, something they hadn't considered before trying to get Ducky to learn it.
"Untie Alex grounded you for wanting to fight zir? That doesn't count. Ze can’t ground you to avoid a fight."
"No Baba grounded me, for a billion years, apparently."
"Bibi grounded you! Why?"
"I don’t know! I told them about our plan, and they teleported me to them and told me I was grounded. It’s so unfair." He punctuated this complaint by falling onto the remains of what used to be his bed.
"You don’t have to listen to them. You can sneak out. I’ve done it a bunch of times."
"Then I’ll get in trouble. Baba will probably put puzzles everywhere or something. The house becomes a nightmare to navigate anytime they’re upset with me or Cenn. And then Cenn will be mad at me and get rid of all the meat in the city. Ze has done it before, and ze will do it again."
"If we defeat Untie Alex, you won’t need to worry about going vegetarian, and if Bibi does booby trap your apartment, then you can stay over at my house. My parents will be more than happy for you to come over, especially after we defeat Untie."
Hawk looked at the window, considering the offer. "Well, in that case,..."
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The news was having a field day. There was a fight with S-Tier just outside the city. That wasn’t unusual in the slightest, but what was was the fact that ze wasn’t just annihilating the heroes. There were only two of them, fighting zir. One is an unnamed and relatively new hero who was last seen assisting Leader USA with minor crime fighting. The other is completely unknown. The two unnamed heroes going up against the S-Tier and not getting immediately slaughtered is very interesting, and the news channels were exploiting that as much as possible.
Morgan, on the other hand, was oblivious to everything going on. They had just finished up some heist plans and realized it was rather quiet. They assumed Hawk had decided to take a nap and Alex must be out, causing mayhem. They decided to turn on the news, to check and see what Alex was up to.
Only to see their grounded son out fighting zir.
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"Aren’t you two supposed to be doing homework?" Alex was getting rather frustrated with these two. Sure, everyone goes through a hero phase, but why couldn’t Hawk have been ‘a getting cats out of trees’ type hero instead of ‘I will defeat my father’ type?
"Defeating villains such as yourself comes before such menial matters!" Ducky must have taken lessons from Chad in heroic speeches.
As Hawk was getting ready to add to the banter, someone walked in between all of them.
"What do you three think you’re doing?" Morgan asked in a deceptively calm voice.
"Those two are the ones who—"
"Alex, you aren’t allowed to kill family. Both of them are family."
"I wasn’t going to kill them."
Morgan gave zir a look.
"I can’t just let them off scot free! Besides, he," Alex pointed to Hawk, "can grow his limbs back and he," Alex pointed to Ducky, "clearly wants to emulate Chad. Why not give him the metal arms?"
"You are not maiming our child or nephew."
Alex folded zir arms but relented. Ze was not about to argue with an angry Morgan.
Morgan then turned to Hawk, taking a more parental pose, looking about two seconds away from pointing at him to help drive home the fact that he was being scolded. "You are grounded, Mister. I'm not sure why you thought I wouldn't enforce your grounding, but I am. And since you can’t keep yourself in your room, from now on I am putting puzzle locks on your door and window."
Hawk just lowered his head, accepting his fate. He was not about to argue with an angry Baba.
Morgan finally turned to Ducky, "And you. I called your mother. You are supposed to be doing make-up work right now. I know you’re from a hero family that lets you put saving the world before homework, but we all know your mother specifically told you that she will not let you do that until you catch up with your current homework. I don’t know how you thought you’d get away with it since all of Alex’s fights are on national television. Clearly, you must have gotten Dave’s planning skills."
Ducky looked like he was about to speak up in defense of his father, before Mogan glared at him. He was not about to argue with an angry Bibi.
"Now Alex, you are going to go to your lair. I will talk to you later. You," they looked at Ducky, "are no longer trusted by your parents. I will be escorting you home for them to deal with. And you," they looked at Hawk, "are coming with me to drop off him, then we are going straight home. If you even think of misbehaving during that time, you will be eating only broccoli for the next month. Do all of you understand?"
"Yes, dear."
"Yes, Baba."
"Yes, Bibi."
Alex snapped their fingers, disappearing. Morgan grabbed both the boys and dragged them home. All the bystanders stood there very confused.