*A week later.*
"Okay, sorry, can you repeat that?" Nova raised an eyebrow, looking up at Ronin while sitting on the couch watching some cartoons on the T.V.
For the last few days since the attack, Ronin had been giving her a few training tips on how to avoid getting caught stealing, and a few ways to defend herself in battle, so nothing like last time happens again, which of course took Nova a good while to fully recover from.
"You heard me shrimp, so far, you haven't proven anything of being any help to me, and you only have four days left. So if you wanna prove it, you're gonna have to do it soon." Ronin told her as he crossed his arms while leaning against a door frame.
Nova started pouting a bit, she didn't want to be reminded of that since she already knew it. But again he was right that she had to do something for these last few days she had left. "Fine, I'll show you that I can be useful." She said, turning off the T.V and got off the couch.
Heading towards the balcony, Nova activated her mask and pulled up her hood. "I'll be back around dinner, old man." [robotic] She said in a robotic voice, since her tech mask changed her voice so it sounded more robotic. Making it harder to know what she actually sounded like, and no one would know what gender she was.
Nova jumped off the balcony and landed on a rooftop further away. "Okay, now what should I actually do to prove myself?" She thought to herself, since she didn't have a plan in mind, she just straight up left the apartment without any idea on what she should do.
So after trying to come up with something, she just started jumping from rooftop to rooftop trying to look around for anything of interest. Which ended up taking her most of the day since the sun was already slowly going down, as she was beginning to lose hope.
"I should probably head back, it should be dinner time soon, and I'm not up for being outside here at night." Nova turned around and began running back, until something caught her eye. "Wait a minute, is that?" She decided to change paths until she saw the building.
"A bank, of course, why didn't I think about that before. If I'm able to sneak in and steal some money, that should be enough of a proof to Ronin." Nova smiled until another thought came to her mind.
"But how do a kid actually rob a bank..... I mean, I've watched a few movies, but there is no way that it is that easy to just do. Hell, I don't even know anything about hacking, and I'm not the best at sneaking, even though I have some of the basics of it." She thought, getting a little unsure and anxious about this plan.
"But if I don't try, Ronin is gonna throw me out back on the street." Nova mumbled, trying to work up some kind of plan.
After a bit of thinking, Nova headed back to the apartment where Ronin had already made them dinner for them to eat, she walked over and sat down on the table, still planning around in her head, that she hadn't heard Ronin talking to her. Until he was snapping his fingers in front of her.
"Huh, what?" Nova looked up at him confused as she hadn't heard what he said.
"I said, no luck or are you just wasting my time by coming back empty handed, don't forget you still owe me a new toaster and frying pan." Ronin said, leaning back in his chair with a raised eyebrow and arms crossed.
"Oh my god! will you just drop it already, it was one time!" Nova complained with an annoyed sigh. "You broke both of them on the same night, so no, I will not drop it, missy." He glared at her.
Nova pouted a bit as she finished eating her dinner before getting up and took her dishes over to the sink, about to try and turn it on. "Don't you dare try and touch that, I'm not gonna have a broken sink next, and I'm not up for wasting more money on that." Ronin warned her in a harsh tone, to which she just rolled her eyes.
"Geez fine, though it's already close to breaking down from the looks of it." Nova mumbled, leaving the kitchen and going over to the couch, laying down. "I'm going to sleep." she closed her eyes, wanting some rest before heading out.
*Later in the night.*
Nova slowly opened her eyes as she looked around in the darkness of the room,listening closely to Ronin snoring in his room. "Okay, now while he is asleep, I can try and use his laptop to hopefully find a blueprint for the bank. I mean, this is a kid's show, so it should be pretty easy to find." She thought, finding the laptop, and tapped in the password she had seen him typing in each time.
She was so wrong, it was not easy to find a blueprint of the bank.
"Oh, come on, for fuck's sake this is a kid's show, it shouldn't have taken me this long to find one stupid blueprint." Nova complained in her head, but was at least glad she finally found what she was looking for and began working up a plan on how to sneak in, and out without being caught.
After a good five minutes or so, Nova removed her search history and anything else she had been looking at before closing the laptop and looking towards the room Ronin was sleeping in. Though she couldn't hear him snoring anymore, which made her a little nervous since she had been too focused, she hadn't noticed when he had stopped.
"I pray to the First Spinjitzu Master that he is still asleep." Nova prayed as she slowly walked over to the door and carefully opened it, checking and saw that he was still asleep, which was a relief. She closed the door before then walking out to the balcony, she was still a little surprised the day she woke up in his bed after having that one breakdown out there, and he seemed somewhat more nice, though mostly in his own stupid Ronin way.
She shook her head, snapping out of those thoughts before activating her mask, and pulling up her hood before jumping off and over buildings again.
*20 minutes later.*
She finally arrived at the bank and started looking around while remembering the blueprint until she found the vent she was looking for.
Nova made sure it was clear and safe before heading over to the vent and pulled out two needles and began removing the screws, being careful to not make a sound when she finally could get into the vent and began crawling inside. "Okay, by the blueprint it should be the second to the left and then down." She mumbled as she kept moving around in the vent until she got to her destination.
Nova slowly removed a vent opening, before she stuck her head down and looked around as she saw the screens that show from what the cameras could see. "Okay, now to turn those off, but how?" She wondered as she noticed a security guard. "Fuck, I forgot about that."
She looked around trying to come up with a plan along with seeing what she had on her that she might be able to use.
A coin that she was able to steal from Ronin without being noticed, the needles she used earlier, a lockpick and some powder.
"Hmm, well, looks like I need to use this guy." Nova moved to the other side of the vent and got ready to aim her coin towards the opened door.
"Why the fuck is it even open, normally they would be closed for security reasons." She thought, throwing the coin down the hall. Making a sound that alerted the guard as he got up with a flashlight, and walked out of the room looking around.
Nova took that chance and quickly jumped down, knowing she only had a good few seconds to pull this off, and then having to head to the heart of the bank before the alarms went off.
"I understand now, why robbing a bank is not a one person job now.....unless you're Ronin, I suppose." She mumbled, turning off the camera before looking down the hall, not seeing the guard.
"Okay, I'm gonna have to rush this, I only get one chance, even if the alarm does go off. If I can just get out without being caught by the guard, I might have a chance." Nova thought, trying to cheer herself up. She took a deep breath before sneaking through the halls, keeping an eye out of the guard, as she got closer to the big vault.
"I hate being this little." She complained when she saw that she wasn't tall enough to reach and open it.
Nova looked around before using her jumping ability, which ended up not being the best idea, as she ended up hitting her head on the ceiling. "Ow, okay, note to self, don't use jumping ability inside a building unless there is enough space." She mumbled, rubbing her head.
"There's gonna have to be a way for me to get through this stupid thing, without turning on the alarms." Nova mumbled, looking around, keeping an eye out for the security guard.
"I really wish I had some kind of power that could help me right now." Sighing, she placed a hand on the big vault, closing her eyes, trying to think since she could feel the stress slowly building up for each passing second.
"I'm so fucking close, and the only thing in the way is my stupid size!" Nova growled, punching the vault without thinking, but to her surprise, when she hit it, the vault started turning to dust. "What....the...fuck" She mumbled before looking at her hands seeing an ever so faint purple glow.
".... Wait, I have elemental powers, fuck yeah!" Nova shouted, excited, punching a fist into the air before quickly covering her mouth. "Fuck, worst time to be cheering." She scolded herself as she started hearing footsteps heading her way.
"Yeah, okay fuck this, I'm busted, but I'm not going empty handed." Nova growled, running into the vault, not caring about the alarms going off.
She put down her small bag and began grabbing what money she could, while hearing the footsteps now being very close until. "Freeze!" The guard shouted, holding up a gun, though was taken by surprise to see that it was a kid by the size of her.
"Shit, shit, shit." Nova thought, looking around while putting the bag over her shoulders again.
"Don't move, take that bag off and raise your hands, kid, I mean it. Though I don't get why a little kid would try and steal from a bank alone." The guard said being very confused about this situation.
Nova slowly backs away towards the darker parts of the inside of the vault. "Kid, put down the bag." said the guard once again, as he started walking closer towards her.
"No, no, no, no, no I'm so fucking close! If I get caught now, I'll have failed my part of the deal, and who knows where I'm gonna be set off to." Nova started to panic, looking around, while the guard just kept getting closer until he was finally close enough, and quickly went to grab her arm.
"NO!" [robotic] Nova screamed in a robotic voice because of her mask, in fear of getting grabbed until in the blink of a second she went backwards, and was now outside in the alleyway, and she was looking up at the night sky.
"What the fuck just happened?!" Nova questioned, confused, until she heard sirens coming. "Holly shit the police, nope, nope, I can ask questions later about this. Right now, I just need to get the fuck out of here." She mumbled, getting back up and quickly jumped up on a building, before then jumping as far away from the bank and back to the apartment.
*The security guy tried explaining what happened to the police.*
"What the fuck do you mean the thief just poofed! You had them right in front of you!" The police officer shouted at the security guard. "Officer, I did what I could, but I didn't inspect it to be a little kid of all things!" The guard explained.
"You're telling me a kid robbed a bank alone, HOW!?" The officer shouted.
*Back with Nova.*
Nova finally landed on the balcony while letting out a heavy sigh, having to sit down to catch her breath as she was so exhausted from all of that.
"Well, look at that, the shrimp actually caught something without being eaten." said a voice, taking Nova by surprise as she saw Ronin leaning against the door frame with a smirk on his face.
"Y-you're awake... I thought you were asleep." She said surprised.
"Oh that, I was just pretending after I heard some movement, and the alarm I got of someone using my laptop." Ronin said, walking over and picking up the bag. "Well, that's a start." He said, heading inside.
"Hey, that's my money, old man." Nova got up and started following him, though was still pretty exhausted from everything that happened.
"Sorry kid, but this is now my money, so it looks like you're gonna have to steal more again, some other time." Ronin chuckles as he takes the money bag into his room.
"Stupid motherfucking old man, and just after everything I went through, and he just takes it." Nova growled, but went to the couch laying down, too tired to have a fight with him for the night, so she closed her eyes and soon fell into a deep sleep.