Booooooooole part threeeeee

*Boole Bowzah had gone about her day after getting a dorm key like she often did. She'd keep to herself for a majority of the time to avoid the repeated questions she had grown tired of hearing day in and day out.

"What have you been up to B.?"

In actuality there had been plenty of things she could keep herself busy with. In her time of reform she had gone about and made peace with shopkeepers she had wronged in the past...owners of establishments she had robbed...people she had beaten up and bullied. She was smart enough to be kind and polite to people she would likely end up needing to communicate with in the future.

Her first stop was at the cafe she had rarely frequented. A kind old lady stood outside and examined the prices of a few daily specials. It was odd seeing the lady so intent on purchasing things with such high sugar and caffeine content, but when she noticed that the woman's face was ....not on the happy side, Boole couldn't help but walk up and introduce herself.

"Errr..Uhh....is everything okay?" the girl interjected, not exactly comfortable with the heroics just yet. She nervously scratched at the bridge of her nose as her desire to whip out and smoke a cigarette ascended at an alarming rate.

"Oh? Hello deary...Yes I'm just noticing the abnormally high prices on these things! Would you look at the cost?! $35,000 for a sandwhich and coffee!"

She'd direct Boole's attention with her hand. Realistically the price didn't mean much to Boole, it was chump change, but she could imagine for someone living so close to the slums--this kind of thing would be bothersome.

".....D'ya need some money're somethin'?" Boole replied, already digging into her pockets. The girl would nonchalantly whip out large bills and spared no expense, holding it outward to the old woman. To her surprise the old lady pushed the money back to the teen girl with gusto!

"No, no....to be honest I just needed to vent to someone! It's been years since I've seen prices this high for something so simple!...Aren't you an angel though, going out of your way to offer to pay for me?"

A familiar reddening appeared on Boole's face...gosh, the praise and compliments were such a strange thing for her to get used to. She'd groan, trying her best to mask how strange it was to her....Without hesitation though, she'd ask the lady to lay it on her, listening attentively to anything she had to say.....and so....they spoke. The old lady spewed her ramblings and rantings to the young girl and before she knew it--2 hours had passed! The lady was so grateful to Boole that she had given her a hug before they parted ways--and with that, Boole now had a new confidant by her side. The elderly woman Laverna.

Boole would make her way to the general store and hover around the clothing section. Countless times before she had come into this store and taken what she wanted without paying. Her motto was : I'm saving up money to buy cool things-- of course...cute things to wear were all under her 5 finger discount!...Nowadays she felt bad though. She'd made her way to the manager for the establishment and took her time to chat with him. The youngish man had blonde hair and bags under his eyes, and he seemed BEYOND annoyed to speak to Boole. They had gotten into a few scuffles over the years over clothing and her apparent shoplifting but it seemed like no amount of talking could rectify the situation. The girl mumbled and growled to herself before making her way out of the store....What?!

Two masked men rushed into the building past Boole, bumping into her with their shoulders. The girl stumbled backward and stared, trying her best not to lose her cool-- but she would be shocked to see the men brandishing firearms! One let off a shot into the air causing the remaining customers to fly into a panic while the other made his way to the cashier. Boole's eyes twitched as fleeing customers made their way outside.

The robbery was all moving so fast...the unwilling manager unable to put his pride aside while the cashier was having a full blown panic attack. The teenager knew she hadn't been trained for heroics just yet but...she couldn't just stand there and watch things go south unchecked like this.

WHACK!!!

The manager had been pistol whipped and went crashing to the floor. The girl bared her teeth and took a step forward before crouching down behind a display. It seemed that she did it just in time to avoid the gaze of the backup robber. As both masked men made their way behind the cash register, Boole had to think fast. The dazed manager and the frantic cashier needed saving...the girl atleast had the heart to be ther when no one else would.

She'd inhale sharply before barely opening her mouth, allowing a thick wave of dark smoke to roll out and dance along the floor and aisles around her. As long as the girl kept her maw open, the smoke continued to spew like alien tendrils crawling along surfaces and sticking to everything around. One of the men caught wind of what was going on and alerted the other!

"What da hell?! You seein' dis Johnn--" "Don't say my name you fuggin idiot!"

The two began to make their trek back toward the store's entrance, growing increasingly nervous as they neared the now barely opaque wall of black smoke. Brandishing their guns and pillow-cases filled with money, they tried to circle around the apparent obstruction.

"Who da fuck set da place on fire?"

WHOOSH!

A plume of smoke shot from the epicenter directly at the man's face! A centralized explosion went off on his face-- nothing overtly damaging, but with enough concussive force to send the man in a tailspin toward the end of the store. "Johnny" on the other hand, sent a few shots into the smoke, and the whizzing projectile would scrape Boole's shoulder.

"N-Ngh, fuck!" The girl would exclaim as she spun and fell near a mannequin. The plastic humanoid would fall to the floor and make enough of a commotion to steal the gunman's attention. He'd send more shots in the general direction without any remorse or hesitation, sure that he'd hit something!

Boole rolled and scampered away as bullets would ricochet and bounce about the front of the store! Glass shattered as the ping of metal and steel echoed throughout the building. The girl held a hand in front of her and stared intently at it causing it to burst into a controlled flame. She'd slam her palm onto the open wound to cauterize it, shrieking but hushing herself with her gritted teeth....What was this sudden quiet space in the encounter? She still heard the panicking cashier  in the distance...but where was the robber?...He had stopped shooting?

The girl looked over her shoulder and had lost track of the man...just what the hell was going on? From her crouching position she'd sneak over near a mirror, still under the cover of smoke. It had been a long tense moment before anything else would happen.

CRASH!!!!

The glass near her head was obliterated by a bullet! The girl yelped as she had been startled! She could've lost her life in that moment of carelessness. The man cheered as he had cornered the firebreathing girl, slowly making his way toward where she ended up coming to a rest. She had barely been pushing herself up from the floor before she noticed the looming figure in the smoke, gun still pointed in her direction.

"F-Fuck....". The man would pull back the hammer on his gun before pulling the trigger again, one final time!

An explosion rocked the entire building as the air itself in the establishment was set on fire! The smoke had been cleared in the sudden blinding forceful explosion with glass and clothing incinerated and projected outward onto the lawn of the establishment.....In it's wake, a crater with Boole herself heaving and hyperventillating, hacking up black tar and smoke as soot and ash rained in the store....The sprinkler system activated late as per the usual, and to the girl's relief...the cashier and manager were safe behind the counter!...The same couldn't be said for the robber though, who had been ejected so forcefully from the establishment that he had been slammed into the wall of the hotel and pinned against it.

She'd wait quite a long while until the police and first responders stopped buy...but...hey. It was another eventful day for the girl afterall.*