"My only remorse is that you will hate me, but I know in the bottom of my heart that you will forgive me."
Another loud knot hit the door. "NYPD! Open the door! We have a warrant!" A female voice yelled from the other side of the door and Nigredo "head" retracted back into his body.
Leo rolled his eyes, and quickly opened, looking at his childhood friend Sarah standing in front of him with a smudge smile.
A petite fair skin girl with black leather pants and heavy metal dark shirt with a skull on it. With a dog collar in her neck, chains dangling from her spiky belt and multiple earrings on her, it was clear she was a punk. One didn't even need to see her blonde undercut hairstyle to realize that. One could even see her midriff as the shirt refused to cover it. Those piercing blue eyes were beautiful and since she lacked on the tits department, that was her only "sexy" part. Well, that would be if you didn't count that big, spankable, and soft ass that only a woman that spend all his childhood being a ballet dancer and her teenager years jumping from rooftop to rooftop being a heroine could have.
"Roger is gonna fucking kill you for doing this, you know?" Leo said while letting the girl in and closing the door behind.
"Good thing that my good friend is not gonna snitch on my dad. Right, Strawberry?" She answered and playfully punched him in the arm.
He chuckled and looked at that massive dumptruck moving from behind as she sat on the bed. It was almost as if she was teasing him. "Sure, why wake up so early?" Leo asked, knowing full well she was really busy last night.
"Are you fucking kidding me? I know that you got fucked up last night! You should have called for support!" She barked at him, sitting on his chair looking clearly pissed.
"Well, see? I am perfectly fine!" He answered and then lifted his shirt, showing that the bullet wound from yesterday was gone.
"Yep, I did an amazing job fixing you," Nigredo added, coming out his shoulder as a tentacle with her face on the end as always.
"I knew it!" Sarah barked.
Leo blinked a few times, looking at Sarah and then at Nigredo. "Are you . . . not surprised about her?" He muttered, pointing at the alien symbiote.
She rolled her eyes. "Bro, you don't have any idea the crazy shit that I saw last night . . . having a sentient alien goo attached to you is like. . . doesn't even break in the top ten," the girl answered, giving a logical but incorrect explanation about her reaction.
"Welp, I am Nigredo," the alien said and then took her humanoid from beside Leo, hugging him from the side and rubbing his face against those massive tits.
"Daaaaaaam you got yourself a baddie, Sarah by the way," she said looking at her with a knowing smile.
Nigredo chuckled. "You know me, I am the worst," the alien answered while smiling back. Subtly confirming that both remembered each other.
After a few minutes explaining the situation, she was up to date with all the necessary parts of their new relationship. Letting out the lewd stuff, of course.
"So . . . you got a power, neat, you need to start to farm asap," Sarah suggested as he needed to catch up to her fast if they wanted to patrol together. As Leo was now, he was dead weight.
"Sparring would work?" Leo asked Nigredo.
"Sure! But I don't think we are at her . . . power level yet," the alien suggested as they would be blown away if she even thought about using her special skill.
"I can do it without using my power if that helps, I have until night falls before starting my round," the bottom heavy girl suggested, after all, they went to kickboxing together.
"Fine, we can do a few matches then," Leo answered with a smile, knowing full well that Sarah could take some punishment.
Sarah stood up and cracked her neck. "Alright, let's head to the roof. Less chances of civvies seeings us fuck ehacother up," she said, because practicing combat over gravel always build more character and a fat hospital bill.
Leo nodded. "You really aren't gonna ask me more about the alien living inside me?" He asked, still curious from her lack of surprise.
Sarah pushed open the window and climbed onto the fire escape of the building. "I told you, bro. Last night I saw a dude getting Kaleidoscopiced over two city blocks. He looked like someone had put a mirror house inside a slaughter house. A goo girlfriend is whatever," she answered, trying to forget the view.
Nigredo merged back into Leo's body. "Damb, this a fat ass if I have seen one," she said as the boy was thinking out loud.
"You know it, sis!" Sarah answered with a cheeky smile while the redhead blushed.
They climbed to the roof with the morning sun brightening on the horizon as they tried to ignore the bizarre state of New York. There was no much destroyed buildings as one would expected but more weird stuff from zones that looked from the middle ages, weird forest of multi color vegetations and even a chunk of buildings that looked from the future with flying cars buzzing around them.
Sarah walked to the center of the gravel-covered surface and turned around, cracking her knuckles as it was clear that there was nowhere around. Just them, the central climate unit exhaust vent and the locked door that only maintenance could use to get up here by normal means.
"Okay, rules. No powers from me, just straight up fist, kicks and grapples, First one to tap out or get knocked on their ass loses," she explained and gave some small jumps in place, getting into a combat stance.
Leo stepped forward, lowering his center of mass and remembering he was disarmed. Well, it was fair this way, he didn't want her getting a weapon to make things "Even". "Are you sure about this? You were working to the bone last night and you didn't get a lot of sleep," he muttered with a worried tone. Her power didn't include regeneration after all.
Sarah laughed. "If I can fight a bunch of giant lizard people after doing a five hour concert in the middle of summer, I can play with you just like when we were six. Get over here," she finally said.