Los Diablos. Two months since the attack on the museum.
You have a reputation now, or rather, Garrett Helton X does. You've gotten comfortable with the armor, with the mannerisms, with the many ways in which your new mask differs from who you were as Sidestep.
In a way, becoming a villain has felt like coming home. Back when you started, you just wanted to have a good life, any way you could have it.
Make up for lost time. Have everything that had been denied you. Reclaim yourself and your place in the world. You decided that if the rules you followed in the past didn't matter, you might as well take what you wanted.
And you wanted everything.
And yet, time has passed; did things change?
Are you still trying to create a life for yourself?
Your motivation still holds true; the months that have passed have only served to hone your focus. You might have denied who you were for the longest time, but once you decided to cross the line, you had your answer.
Maybe it's envy. Maybe it's just the feeling that you want to get something more out of life than just existing. Is that so bad?
You know the answer to that. Of course it is. You weren't meant to have a life, not really. You were designed to do a job, and now that you don't, you're a liability. Why is it so hard to forget that? So hard to embrace what you have become, someone with the power to do everything you never could before?
Maybe because you know it's still a lie. Maybe because you know that you are only one mistake from getting taken away again.
Oh well. You'll make the most of the time you have, and to help you do that, you have become…