The Masked Thief

Sometimes you did what you had to in order to survive in a world where superheroes and villains thrived. By day Joshua was a high-school student running games on classmates. By night he was a masked thief that robbed from criminal underbelly of Nightingale City with the help underfunded genius willing to look the other way.

He wasn't an overrated hero or crazed villain. Just a nameless and unknown thief looking out for himself and a few others by playing a dangerous game. But when a crime boss went wild and threatened one of his own, he took on a name: Crestfallen.

Now he has a covert operations team after him, one of their members being a classmate named Clare and holds powers of her own. And her assignment is to catch him and bring him in for what he stole, before the secrets he's learned changes the world.

The first part of the Masked Thief Arc and the first entry of the Crestfallen Series, this short story contains over [14,000 words] and a bonus excerpt from Flux Zone.