Food Thief Fiend Turned Possible Friend

[Honos Black]

Honos was thriving at the moment. School was over, college class got canceled and he had $35 worth of cheap fast food in front of him. He was starving! He hadn't eaten since lunch and his shitty English teacher wouldn't let him eat in class even though it's on record that he has to for medical reasons.

So here he was, looking at his feast, beaming at how much he got. 2 xl veggie pizza, three 10 piece nugget meals with large fries, 5 double burgers, two taco truck burritos, 15 taco truck tacos and two oreo shakes with one rootbeer, also large.

He grabbed the fries and happily grabbed three, dipped the greasy potato in ketchup and gets ready to shove them in his mouth, only for them to disappear. He frowned at his empty hand and tried again, knowing he didn't eat it due to the lack of salty fried goodness. Only it happened again!

"Are you fucking kidding me?!" He shouted. He tried again, this time dumping some barely legal hot sauce on them and goes to shove the delicious concoction in his mouth, only to scream in frustration when he got nothing.

"Dude! If you're a fucking speedster, stop it! I'm seeing black spots and need to eat!" He shouted to the empty street, frustrated and near tears when he felt his body shake and know that he'll feel ill and will faint if he can't eat. "Please let me eat!"

[Riley Jackson]

Riley liked to mess with people. She didn't make a secret out of it. If she could, and she often could, she would go and pull some kind of usually harmless prank, especially if she considered you a friend. However, her penchant for mischief didn't stop at friends. She often would mess around with complete strangers, reveling in the fact that she was likely becoming something of a local cryptid, a strange blur that made fast food disappear.

So, when she was just racing around town and spotted a boy about to chow down on some fries, of course she snatched them away from him the instant before he bit into them. She needed to eat too, her powers gave her hypoglycemia, which meant her body burnt off the sugar in her blood too quickly. They were good fries, and she was still hungry, so she figured she'd mess with him again, zipping around the block and snatching the next bite. The third bite surprised her with how spicy it was. What really gave her pause, though, was the scream of frustration. She knew what it felt like to have low blood sugar, to need to get some food in her before you passed out. She felt bad, and this kid seemed okay. He couldn't really cause any trouble, right?

She was going to make it up to him. There was a convenience store with some damn good corn dogs over on 42nd street, so she raced over there, snatched one up, and then raced back and stuck it in the boy's open mouth as he protested her prank. When she finally slowed down, she had a corn dog for herself, and was leaning against a street pole. "Hiya. Sorry, I didn't know you were hypoglycemic too. I was just havin' a bit of fun while keeping my blood sugar up. Nice to meetcha, I'm Riley."

Honos Black

[Honos Black]

Honos nearly fell off his seat from shock at the sudden corndog in his mouth. He blinked and reached up, grabbing the stick, taking the food item out of his mouth, confused. His confusion bled away when Riley showed up and he pointed the dog at her. "You suck! But also, this is good! Where the hell did you get this?" He asked before taking a large and happy bite from the dog.

He picked up one of his shakes and handed it to her. "'M Honos. I burn calories really fuckin' fast due to the fire thing. My English teacher is a bitch and wouldn' lemme ea', even though I have it on my file that I gotta eat in class." He babbled between and around bites of food. "And since I didn' eat a lot prior to her class due to it being dangerous to do so, I kinda...splurged. Worth it."

"Ya wanna split it with me?" He asked, soon digging into his fries, having finished the corndog halfway through his sentence. "Nice prank, though. How's yer mouth with the hot sauce?"

[Riley Jackson]

Riley gladly took the shake, draining it very quickly. Her speed extended to eating fast as well. "Your English teacher could be kicked in the nads by the faculty for fucking around when you've got a medical issue. Might think about complaining at 'em."

Riley chowed down on her corn dog, talking with her mouth full. "It's Riggy's over on 42nd street. Great corn dogs. Always grab one when I'm passing by. And yeah, that does sound like hypoglycemia. Body burns your blood sugar too fast. Speaking of which--"

The woman was a blur and suddenly there was a pizza amidst the fast food Honos had got. "Figured I should contribute to our little snack attack. I think it's just pineapple though. That bloke has some sort of fixation or is a really picky eater when it comes to pizza toppings."

She grabbed more fries and they were gone in a flash. "So Honos, what's this fire thing you mentioned? Cuz if it's the spicy its real good. Real hot, but real good, but I'm not quite connecting how that gives you hypoglycemia."

Honos Black

[Honos Black]

Honos ate as she talked, clearing through the tacos and half of a burrito. He handed her the other burrito, one of the 10 piece nuggets, and a large fries before dumping some hot sauce and lime juice onto his burrito and taking a happy bite. He covered his mouth with one hand and twisted his other, showing her how his hand lit up with fire. He waved the fire away and slid the bottle of sauce to the middle of the table so she could have some.

"I have firepower stuff. 'M literally on fire an' it burns through calories 'n' stuff really fast. Leads ta me needing ta eat a lot more an' being more sensitive ta cold stuff. So many broken bones happen in the wintertime." He spoke, mouth half full. "And tha's the sauce that'sonthefriesyoutook" Honos smiled and grabbed some fries, pointing them to her. "Barely legal, that stuff. Have tasignawavierbecauseit's so spicy" He grinned. "Not that it's that spicy ta me. But yeah. Good shit" He proceeded to shove the fries in his mouth, doing a small happy wiggle at the fried goodness.

[Riley Jackson]

Riley nodded at the hot sauce. "That stuff surprised me. I almost tripped. Good though."

When he showed off his powers, Riley's eyes lit up. She started zooming from spot to spot around him as he demonstrated, getting a better look at it from every angle. In between zips, she spoke. "Oh that's awesome! How far can you shoot it? Is it just your hands? You said you're literally on fire. Can you like go fully engulfed in flames? How many times have you committed arson in some way? Not like in a bad way like in a fun way. Like an abandoned building kind of thing."

Somewhere in there, she'd put hot sauce on three slices of pizza, eaten them, as well as the burrito and half of the nuggets he'd given her. "This stuff is real good. You want to burn a building down? I know a building we could burn down. Nobody would catch us, and it's gonna get tore down anyway. Hold on a sec."

Riley zipped away and was back in a second with more snacks, this time a plate of nachos from Nacho Bitch. "I always like their nachos more than their burgers. Dunno why a taco place decided to do burgers. So, whaddya say, we eat and then burn a place down?"

Honos Black