DN - Pin Man

Then it’s running, shouting, fighting, tackling, and we’ve got his face pressed into the carpet in his living room. He sucks in a breath to scream. I clap my hand over his mouth, and he tries to bite me. It’s kind of adorable, actually. He squirms and struggles but with my legs clamping his arms to his sides he might as well be trussed up with steel cable for all the good it’s doing him. Calamity pats him down and pulls his phone from his pocket.

“I’m bulletproof and I can juggle dumpsters,” I say quietly. “Give it up. We just want to talk. If I take my hand off your mouth, are you going to be quiet?”

He nods. The moment my hand clears his lips he begins to shout. I muzzle him again. “If you keep doing that, I’m going to take you ten thousand feet straight up and let you scream to your heart’s content, okay?” He goes still. “Can we just talk, please? I need you to tell me all about Utopia.”

- Dreadnought, Chapter 22