Anon's Elastic Girl attempt pre

	“Metropolis City, a formerly crime ridden den of fear and destruction now near an age of crimeless utopianism where once families cowered in fear over the presence of everyday violence blah blah blah, city cleaned of crime by the cooperation between masked vigilantes and the local MCPD. Most Notable of the masked vigilantes is: Elastic Girl, Crow man, Rubber Gal, The Iron Fist and many more. Thanks to the Cooperation the citizens can blah dee freaking blah can you believe this crap, Jimmy?” My boss Pete said rather loudly without breaking eye contact from the newspaper clipping. “Freakin' cops made extortion difficult, but we still had a racket in robbing banks and stores all around the east end Jimmy boy.” He said still very loudly, too loud he might attract unwanted attention but he is my only source of money and work so I must stand it. “But then these damn masked vigilantes make to fucking hard, especially elastic-girl, she's had an iron grip on us cracking down on our bigger operations boyo.”

	“I know, your syndicate would never outsource to guys like me, I’m just a conman with a bit if burglary on the side.” I chimed in nervously shifting in the barber’s chair, He broke contact with his paper, eye balling me up and down. “Shut it boy, every time we make big moves Elastic girl comes and beat the hell out of us or uses that weird stretching power to wrangle my men. But we found solution.” An unnatural smile formed on his gaunt face, “We still move the big operations, but just not as often; in between we have some small crime such petty theft, pick pocketing, even purse snatching, it's low class but its how we can make up for the failed operations.” I can already tell I'm going to get the short end of the money stick. He walks very close to me; I can smell the cheap cologne and admire the exotic fabrics of the white leisure suit he wears so confidently. “I recruited you, Jimmy boy, for your slick past as a conman door to door sales man who sells Chinese made purse for designer prices and gets what he needs over night from a uncooperative customer.”

	“Oh it’s nothing, I do it because I need to eat and all.” I pointed to my scrawny frame, I used this thin frame to my advantage, a trick as I'm very agile and strong too if I may say so myself track practice pays off. “Yes, very frail you are. Eat some more after you’re done today. Here is the locations in the downtown area where you can make some dough robbing or conning do as you please, but remember I get a small percent of what you get!” the boney finger of his jabbed my chest. “And if you see Elastic Girl we never met got it.” Running his fingers across my lips, my god I hope he doesn’t do it again. Looking down upon me I can tell he disapproves of my kind. “Now Go Jimmy boyo, grab a knife out of the cabinet on the way out you’ll need it.”

	“Yes sir” I got the hell out of that barber chair and B-lined my ass out of the old barbers through the back I could feel Pete's eyes glued to my back. Turning the corner and slamming open the door I ignored Pete's advice on the knife. I have my own methods.

Prologue end.