Free Society of Heroes with Indeterminate Talent by Sebastian H. Alive Page A

money!"
    The buyer licked his lips at the package and cradled the battered briefcase in the crook of his arm and opened it, exposing the bundles of money inside.
    Stepping forward the dealer eyed the cash, quickly scanning it with his eyes before smiling and taking another long drag on his cigarette.
    "Everything seems to be in order." he said.
    "Then if everyone is happy the exchange can now take place." remarked the buyer holding out the briefcase.
    The dealer sucked deep on his cigarette and held the smoke at the back of his throat before coughing and spluttering violently.
    "Are you okay?" asked the buyer.
    Bending double the dealer nodded his head as he wheezed for breath.  After a few moments he stood back up with tears streaming from his eyes then straightened his shoulders to regain his composure.
    "Sorry about that, I was trying to blow a smoke ring.  I'm pretty skilful at it."
    "Is it hard to do?" asked the buyer curiously.  "I've never smoked."
    "You need to keep the tongue flat to get the best shape.  I swallowed right at the moment I was going to push the smoke out."
    "Oh right.  Lawrence can do smoke rings, cant you Lawrence?" he said looking back at his burly accomplice.
    "I'm on the electronic cigs now." he replied gruffly.
    "Are you, since when?"
    "About two weeks now."
    "I never knew that," said the buyer.  "Well done you.  Now, if we can go back to the exchange we can be on our way.  I need to get this Heroin cut with cement, brick dust and ground glass before I get it on the street."
    The dealer took the package from his bodyguard and beckoned with his other hand to the buyer who held out the briefcase.
    "We make the switch on three." he said.  "One, two…,"
    "My lord, this alleyway stinks of piss." said a voice entering the alleyway from behind the buyer.
    The dealers head snapped up in alarm as a man dressed in the black suit carrying a clipboard paused and stared at the brick walls of the narrow passageway.  Behind him was another man dressed in a multi-colored tight lycra sequined suit wearing a blue and silver half mask.
    "This is a public health disaster," muttered the man in the suit looking around in disgust.  "I mean look at the place.  Walls covered in graffiti, rubbish all over the place and just look at all the used needles on the ground.  Haven't you people ever heard of a needle exchange program?  When I say drug people, I am of course generalizing you drug people as you people, just to clear that one up."
    "You set me up!" hissed the dealer to the startled buyer.
    "No you set me up!" yelled the buyer spinning around.
    "Relax gentlemen, my name is Agent Two and I represent S.H.I.T.  My colleague behind goes by the name of Captain Cognitive and our aim is to target and eradicate London crime.  I must say your operation is very cliché.  Dark alley, briefcase full of cash, a brick of Heroin, four beefy men, paranoid looking buyer with obvious drug-dependency and a dealer with a cockney accent and a suspicious outline in his leather jacket.  Don’t pretend like nothing's happening here because we're here to put a stop to it.  Isn't that right Captain Cognitive?"
    The superhero ran his tongue over his lips and blinked several times with his head tilted to the side as he gazed at the package of Heroin.
    Agent Two looked over his shoulder at his glazed eyes and sighed heavily.
    "Captain Cognitive, just out of curiosity, and going purely on instinct and judging by your detached stare, do you have a previous addiction you really ought to have shared with the agency before going on this mission?"
    "Huh?"
    "Are you hiding a condition?"
    "I'm on a Methadone program," admitted Captain Cognitive.  "I turned my life around and I'm like a new person.  I'm normal now…and so happy to be free."
    Agent Two shook his head and looked at the dealer and the buyer.
    "Sorry about this, can I just have a moment with my colleague.  It will literally be a few seconds and then we'll get back to