Baltimore | Tuesday Night

[knife_bender]

It was slower than usual on the island with everybody gone. Diego was never the type to be idle so he took this as his chance to go to Baltimore and fight some crime. It wasn't that hard to get a feel for the city and he had already stopped a mugging in progress. Without stabbing anybody, even!

He decided to patrol for a little while longer, keeping to the shadowy areas of the streets because he was wearing a domino mask and even he could admit that was a bit weird.

[For two!]

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[knife_bender]

"I'll take a Drumstick if they have any," Diego called before throwing a knife at one of the mobsters' tires.

He slammed his hand against the truck wall as a sudden swerve almost made him lose his balance. "Who taught you how to drive, Williams?"

[hatesparadise]

"You wanna drive this thing through Baltimore?" he snapped, not glancing back. "I told you to hold on, Hargreeves."

Though, should they look below the thin layer of normal ice cream, there would be a lot of other kinds of treats there, waiting for them.

[grenadesandohana]

"I did not teach him to drive and he will richly deserve it if we get carsick," Steve said, nodding as he pulled open the freezer in the middle of a high speed chase like a totally normal person.

"Huh," he said, starting. "Well, we have a Drumstick. And a lot of pot."

[knife_bender]

"That seems about right," Diego said, shaking his head. "I'd be more surprised if we picked an ice cream truck that wasn't a cover for selling drugs."

[hatesparadise]

"Your driving causes things to blow up," Danny snapped. Because an ice cream truck at a night, in the middle of Baltimore... of course it was a drug operation. "I swear to god--" He swerved sharply again as another van nearly took them out. "We got more!"

The coordinating was just a pain in the ass.

[grenadesandohana]

"I do not understand why they care so much about the lizards," Steve griped. "Think we can trade them the pot?"

Very ethical, Steve. Terribly cop-like.

[knife_bender]

"We don't negotiate with terrorists." Hargreeves family motto right there. "But we do have to think of something. Either these guys are going to shoot us or Williams is gonna drive us into the harbor."

[hatesparadise]

"Hey, you wanna drive, Knife Boy?" Danny snapped.

[grenadesandohana]

"I could drive!"

They would definitely end up in the Harbor.

[knife_bender]

Diego grabbed a Choco Taco out of the freezer and hurled it at one of the cars chasing them. "Fuck off!"

That'll do it, Diego. Good work.

[hatesparadise]

Danny jerked the wheel to slam into the van to their right. You know. Helpfully. "We're fine. Just shoot out their tires."

They weren't fine and his stress levels were through the roof.

[grenadesandohana]

"I'm running low and I'm not sure the tacos are that effective!" Steve yelled back.

[knife_bender]

“I got it,” Diego said, somehow managing to pull more knives out of his various pockets. “Just try to drive this thing straight for five seconds.”

He curved his first couple knives to hit the van to the right, leaving the one directly behind them to Steve since he likely couldn’t curve bullets like he was in that bad James McAvoy movie.

[hatesparadise]

"Freakin' knife nut," Danny grumbled. The van next to them's tires were both shredded by the knifes and it flew up into the air in the least probably fashion as he hit a curb, flipping and sliding on it's roof as they left it behind.

And then it exploded. But they were... probably fine.

Because look what happens when you mix the genres. Look at it.

[grenadesandohana]

"You're gonna have to get those knives on your own," Steve told Diego, snickering. "How many we have left?" he asked Danny.

[knife_bender]

Oh yeah they were totally fine. They could walk that off.

“I don’t know how much more this ice cream truck can take,” Diego said. “And if this thing explodes half the city is gonna get a contact high.”

[hatesparadise]

"And we'll die," Danny snapped. The important part is the us dying bit."

He glanced in the rearview mirror that only really showed him Steve because it was an ice cream truck.

"Just the one behind us."

The really determined one that was driving on rims at this point.

[grenadesandohana]

"It was just lizards," Steve yelled at them through the open van doors. "They need to diversify their portfolios," he added to Diego and Danny, taking aim and firing his last bullet through the windshield at the driver.

[knife_bender]

"Nice shot," Diego said approvingly. "I won't underestimate weird lizard people ever again."

[hatesparadise]

"If you two are done bonding over murder," Danny replied, sighing with relief as the van behind them slowly just came to a stop with no one pushing on the gas anymore.

[grenadesandohana]

"They started it," Steve said, completely unbothered as he went back to the freezer and pulled out some ice cream. "Rocket pop, Danno?"

[knife_bender]

"He's right; they did start it." Diego leaned over the freezer to grab some ice cream for himself. "Damn this is a shitload of weed."

[hatesparadise]

"How about we worry about who the heck it all belongs to," Danny said, parking tge truck once he decided they were far enough away from the Pink Panthers.

He did take the offered rocket pop, though. Because it was there and he needed to see just how much weed they'd accidentally stolen.

[grenadesandohana]

"Or we just drive it to the local cops and make it their problem," Steve said around a mouthful of chocolate chip ice cream sandwich.

[knife_bender]

Diego pointed at Steve. "What he said. Let the BPD do all the paperwork we already did the hard part."

The hard part being accidentally hijacking the right ice cream truck.