Aaron had screwed up. He had screwed up bad. He had no idea how this started but it had gotten way out of control. Aaron was standing on the edge of a nearby building as he saw the street erupt in a storm of fist, fighting, fire and yelling. Lots and lots of yelling. If only he had forecasted this when he started all of this just an hour or two before. And all of this just for a girl.

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2 hours earlier

Aaron had just spent the last few hours on a bus to Pittsburgh. He was both exhausted from the trip but seemingly filled with the infinite energy he weirdly always was filled of. Of course there was an extra feeling that he had felt before but it was usually during heists and such occurrences that feeling you feel in your gut when you're doing something risky, but now he wasn't going to commit a crime or well at least a conventional plan. He didn't really know the proper etiquette for asking a girl on a date was, but due to cartoons, TV shows and what Axel have told him. While one of those were illegal and the other required 50 doves, 12,000 fire crackers and a ice statue of Leonard Nemoy. So Aaron went for the cartoon approach. Get her attention with a crazy scheme.

At least Pittsburgh seemed to be a nice city so far. Nice people, nice places , but more importantly. A Nice place to start a riot. Of course Aaron just wanted to make small concentrated riot with some drunk people in some random bar but of course when Aaron does something for some reason it gets way out of control so he thought starting a small bar fight couldn't be too bad. Hell the Pittsburgh Pirates were playing today and if he knew baseball crowds they shouldn't be too hard to rile up.

He spent the first hour trying to look for the perfect bar to strike and he found it. Some seedy sports bar, where the tension was so high you could cut it with a spoon. So even a missing wallet could spark it all off, which was one of Aaron's specialities. So while easily taking the wallet of an extremely drunk man who seemed to be an angry drunk, taking the keys of another and then accidentally spilled a drink over another he quickly made his way out of the bar and watched from a distance to see it get out of control.

The thing was it got even more out of control that Aaron intended. He just thought it'd be an out of control bar fight, but not turn into anything bigger, but he knew it got out of control when somebody gotten thrown out through the window and the entire fight started to move outside and from there just seemed to get bigger. He had to guess that all of a sudden some mutants or metas joined the fight as people were starting to be thrown around, lighting was striking and just a whole other bunch of stuff was occurring which Aaron had no plan for.

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Present

Aaron picked up his phone and sent a voice message to a contact in his phone labelled "Lil' Green"

"Hey Cassie. It's Aaron. I'm in Pittsburgh and I might need your help. I've fucked up bad. Like really bad. If you turn on the TV to the news the breaking news might tell you what trouble I am in"

Now he was nervous over two things, getting out of her scot free and seeing Cassie again.

Cassie jumped as she heard a buzzing noise from the next room, hers. She jumped again as she started to hear singing.

“In the car I just can't wait,
to pick you up on our very first date-“
Cassie started running into her room, recognising what she’d set as Aaron’s ringtone, and then looked around frantically for the phone, and only saw a pile of stuff where she must have left it literally a couple minutes ago. Damnit why was there so much stuff on top?

”Is it cool if I hold your hand?
Is it wrong if I think it's lame to dance?” Cassie started rummaging through the pile, ultimately discerning that her phone wasn’t in it. She spun around and spotted her phone on the table behind something.

”Do you like my stupid hair?
Would y-" Cassie snatched her phone up, grinned, and then opened it up. She pressed play on the message by spamming the button until it worked.

”Aaron!” Cassie exclaimed as the message started, even without needing anything else. She gave out a little squeak at Aaron’s admittance of where he was. Her excitement was not decreased in any way by the further admissions. It just was more channeled.

Cassie opened up the radio app on her phone and tuned in to a local news channel.

The news reporter sounded like he was trying to keep his tone calm while hiding some far more serious concern.
”-aking news here in Central Pittsburgh, as what now appears to be growing into the biggest riot since the late 1960’s only continues picking up momentum.”

”You’ve gotta be kidding me.”

”The fighting broke out 2 hours ago in a bar. As of yet police have been unsuccessful in containing the rioters-“

”How did you even manage that, Aaron?” She snorted in laughter, and then slapped her hands over her mouth. Not that that stopped the laughing. She shouldn’t find it funny. She wasn’t generally the sort to like rampant chaos spreading across somewhere- she liked being the most chaotic person around. It was just that Aaron had managed to cause that much damage in a seemingly-non-intentional way.

Cassie stopped laughing as the reporter started yelling. ”That’s footage of my favorite bar! WHAT DO THEY THINK THEY’RE DOING TO MY FU-“ The audio shut off on the radio. And Cassie again couldn’t suppress her laughing. This really shouldn’t have been this funny.

She pocketed her phone and then shifted into her hulk’ed up form. As she opened up the window, and flew out, growing out her wings on the descent, she was still laughing. She started going as fast as she could down from her part of town to the central districts. She was sure she’d be able to see some sort of disturbance in front when she got close, and she was right.

”Holy crap,” was really the only correct response. It really was pandemonium. Maybe not as bad as the London riots a few years ago, and not so bad as the 1968 ones, but it was still pandemonium. One of the rioters had grabbed the sound device off a camera man for a reporter (who had probably underestimated the extent of the situation), and the actual reporter was now chasing after, camera man in tow, to get the equipment back.

Most of them were really just fighting but occasionally there were people like the recording thief just taking this as an excuse to do something ridiculous.

Cassie stopped in midair, flapping to keep herself in place, and started searching for Aaron when she thought she was close.
She pulled out her phone, and left him a voice message in return.

”Don’t know how much you know about Pittsburgh, but I’m gonna need directions. Came in from Schenley, then to the 376. I’m gonna need to know where you actually are. Directions or landmarks or something.
How the frick did you start this riot? This seems ridiculous even by your standards.” She was maybe a little annoyed that this was how he’d come to Pittsburgh, but, simultaneously, this was way more interesting, and definitely a change from the boring pace. ”How’d you get Pittsburghese to do something this unlawful?” She was briefly interrupted by another snorting laugh. ”I’m within sight of some of the rioters, so see ya soon. If ya see me, wave or shout at me or something.” She ended the message and put the phone back into a pocket. Cassie started searching for where specifically Aaron was, keeping just above the height of most of the buildings.

Still watching from on the rooftop, Aaron couldn't help but feel a twisted pride of what he had accomplished. It was an amazing achievement, no one he had met had ever caused a riot, at least not on a scale such as this. This was definitely something he was going to brag about back in Keystone. Though he'd get mixed reactions, Mal would be a good friend and listen well to him, Flo would be... well Flo and he could never tell how'd she would react and the rest would be a mix of cold puns and being called an idiot, all things he would be okay with as this was incredible awesome. Hell there even was a even a man swatting people away with a microphone, which Aaron had to admit, was hilarious.

Though for once in his life Aaron started to think, shocking I know, but Aaron knew that he alone wasn't capable of doing anything like, well this. He knew he would cause just a small fight which he could use as an excuse to get Cassie over here as that seemed like a good way to get the attention of any hero/villain/cool person who likes to have fun that Cassie is, but for it to turn out like this even rang some bells in Aaron's mind that something was up. He was thinking about this entire situation, his phone started going off

"I'm coming home again. Do you think abo-" The song was cut off as Aaron answered as the message played, he couldn't help but smile a really stupid smile as he listened to the message. As soon as it end. He started looking for any recognisable features she could follow, but so far all there was bricks, chimneys and not much that could be considered noteworthy or could be considered a landmark, but then what she said to somehow point himself out, that put off a spark in his mind. He started dialling Cassie's phone and whistled a walking on sunshine until she picked up.

"Yes! Hi, Hello. So no, I have no idea where I am or how I caused this. And to make matters worse I don't see a flying green cute girl in the sky. So yeah..." He looked down at the riot and saw a cameraman follow a man in a fancy suit who seemed to be in pursuit of one of the rioters. He couldn't help but let out a little laugh as he looked for a way to get noticed. Then an idea hit him, he was surrounded by bars and people who seemed to be really, really angry. So he had to do what he does best. Piss people off.

"Alright, I have an idea, just keep your eyes open, I'm going to do something really stupid." he said with a sly grin and stood to the edge of the roof and started shouting to the people rioting on the streets.

"Hey bozos! You call this rioting?! My grandma and my 3 year old niece fight better then you guys do!" he shouted down at the crowd which turned several heads and they started shouting explicit things at him. Which Aaron would respond with insults directly aimed at mothers. Finally the arguing finally caused someone to throw a rock at him which missed and just bounced off the wall. "You call that rock throwing?! If this place had a loose brick I would smack all of you with one throw!" Which was followed be more outrage and people starting to throw bottles and other stuff they found around them, some getting very close to hitting but all in the end missing. This kept going on with Aaron continuing to call them names and shouting explicit words until finally something he wanted to happened.

"Oh yeah what if we bring the fire up there?!" a fairly looking drunken man shouted at him, a bit slurred.

"You wouldn't dare, I bet you don't even have the balls much less the strength to climb up here!"

"Not what I meant Jackass!" As he threw something flaming aimed at Aaron. Aaron immediately knew what it was and saw that aiming wouldn't be much of a concern with a molotov, so he jumped away from the edge as far as he could and covered his head as the crack and the spray of fire covered parts of the wall and roof. That should definitely get Cassie's attention.