Chapter 420 - My CO Stash #20 - League of Legends, Not Heroes by RavensDagger (WormXLoL)

-I'm a simple man if I see League, I read/

Synopsis: Taylor summons legends. These are not heroes.

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Chapter 1

Taylor was the luckiest girl.

Well, no, that wasn't quite right. Lucky would have been avoiding the circ.u.mstances that lead her to triggering in the first place. But that was all past her now. It was a thing that had happened and she was over it, mostly. Now she had the best power ever at her beck and call and that, that was lucky.

"Hey there, Teemo," Taylor said as she grinned down at her friend. The little yordle looked up to her and grinned right back.

"Hey Taylor," he said as he used the back of his blowgun to scratch at the side of his head. Teemo was one of the sweetest summons she had. He was so nice and friendly and kind, not to mention super cuddle-able and generally one of the nicest little guys around. "How are you doing?" he asked.

Taylor stretched, her pyjama top all frumpled and wrinkled from being slept in. She yawned. "I'm feeling great. You didn't stay up all night, did you?" she asked.

Teemo shifted from foot to foot and Taylor couldn't resist patting him on the head. "Not all night," Teemo said.

"Silly. You need sleep too."

"I just wanted to check the perimeter," Teemo said. "Make sure no wild creatures snuck up to the house."

"This is Brockton Bay, not a jungle. Though, yeah, some people might count as wild creatures," she admitted. Emma could look an awful lot like a prowling lioness. No. Lions were cool and noble. A prowling alligator. No one liked those.

A small, tiny part of her awesome power twinged at that, and she was afraid she might have insulted one of the many, many heroes she had yet to summon.

Taylor, being the luckiest girl ever, had the best power ever. She could summon heroes! Not just one or two, but what felt like an entire pantheon of incredible people. She hadn't even scratched the surface yet and already she was dizzy at the sheer power and versatility of the people she got to meet.

They even came with their own pyjamas! Well, Teemo didn't have that option, but she could spawn him in a big bee costume that was so cute it nearly made her heart stop the first time she summoned him that way.

"So, what are we doing today?" Teemo asked.

"Ah, well," Taylor began. "I was thinking we could just... hang out. As friends?" she asked. "M-maybe summon even more friends later, like Zoe and Lux and Akali and maybe some new friends after that?" Some of her friends were admittedly a little strange, but they were all the sweetest people. She had a hard time believing they would hurt a fly.

Caitlyn had helped her set up some fly traps when she complained about mosquitos, Heimerdinger had helped her fix the front step one morning while her dad was out and she took Cho'Gath out for walkies in the docks once and not one mean person bothered her for the entire evening!

She was the luckiest girl.

"I need to go to the bank later," she mused.

"I can scout the way," Teemo said and he was so earnest about it she just couldn't say no, even if she knew how to get there already.

***

Taylor entered the bank with a skip in her step and immediately found her way to the back of one of the long lines cutting across the room. She had her card and all, but she needed more than just the straight cash she would get from the ATMs.

The brown-haired girl before her turned to stare but went back to her smart phone a moment later. Taylor was going to wave and introduce herself, but then a pit started to grow in her stomach, her breathing came in a gasp and she thought that the corners of her vision were starting to darken.

What if she was from Winslow? Or knew someone from there? What if she was like Emma? She could hurt her, betray her.

Taylor's arms dropped her side and her breathing calmed down as she abandoned the idea of small talk. Small talk was for chumps anyway. And she had her summons now. Her awesome summons who all wanted to be her friends and who were always nice to her.

Nerves settled, Taylor waited in the line as it slowly moved forwards. An old man by the counter was waving some receipts around in the face of a bored looking clerk, a baby rocking in the arms of a middle-aged woman to one side was crying up a storm and the cheap music was stuck on a loop of three year old pop music.

Then a rolling tide of darkness swept into the room from the far end, followed soon after by huge monsters.

Taylor froze, limbs unmoving until the brown-haired girl bumped into her and jostled her out of her initial panic.

That only left the non-initial panic to deal with.

Taylor found herself pressed against a pillar, back rocking and eyes unfocused as the bank robber, the supervillain bank robbers, threatened everyone in the bank.

"Calm down," the girl from before said.

She reached out to touch Taylor, as if to place a hand on her shoulder. But she wasn't one of Taylor's, she wasn't a friend.

No, Taylor needed a friend, she needed a friend now, one that was confident and strong and who could keep the bad guys at bay. No, what she needed were many friends.

Finding a friend to summon was never an easy task. She had so many at her disposal that keeping track of all of them was sometimes difficult. Even just counting them was like trying to count grains of sand that were being shaken together. Still, there were themes and commonalities. She could sort her friends out into categories. Those were mostly about how they liked to fight, unfortunately, not about what sort of tea they liked or if they wanted to hang out indoors or out.

In a situation like the one she was in, Taylor would take what she could.

Her mind's eye looked for defenders, friends that could keep her safe and also teach the no-good bad guys an important lesson about trying to hurt her.

She grasped at a friend and pulled.

He materialized out of thin air, wafts of brackish smoke spreading apart even as the air was rent and a portal opened. The hole in the world was twice as tall as she was until her friend started to come through. It had to open even wider to let him pass.

Black boots were first, thick steel molded into fierce spikes, then his torso and head and finally the long trailing head of a mace whose head had to outweigh the average minivan. "I have been called by destiny. By domination. By deceit. Why was I called?"

"Mordekaiser!" Taylor said before scrambling onto her knees to hug his leg.

The evil bank robbers had stopped, they might have noticed Morderkaiser since he wasn't making an effort to hide.

"Th-those people, they're bad."

"All will die, all will be mine," Morderkaiser said. His eyes glowed blue within his horned helmet and she let go of his leg as he began to move. Each step made the floor shake, the marble crack and splinter.

"Get them!" Taylor encouraged my friend, then she 'eeped' and ducked down when she saw the villains looking at her.

"Brutus!" one of them called.

One of the huge monsters they had come with charged at Morderkaiser, feet scrambling across the ground before it leapt at her friend with its mouth wide open to take a chunk out of him.

Morderkaiser's arm rose and he grabbed the monster by the side of the head, fingers digging into flesh as he casually stopped its charge without even slowing down. Nightfall came around, the one-handed blow enough to pulp the monster and send chunks of meat flying across the bank.

"And now, you join me in death!" Morderkaiser roared.

Darkness swept out of the villain with the motorcycle helmet, covering Morderkaiser from head to toe and hiding him away from Taylor. She knelt back down and started breathing faster. "He'll be okay, he'll be okay," she whispered. She had to believe in her friends!

"Is he a projection?" the brown-haired girl asked. Taylor looked at her and shied away a little until she raised both arms in surrender. "Hey, I won't hurt you."

Taylor nodded. "He's one of my friends."

An explosion travelled through the floor and made the entire bank shake. Then the darkness cleared. "I am one with the darkness. Do not think to fight me in my own domain," Morderkaiser said. He brought Nightfall up to his shoulder, bits of the villain dripping off of it.

"We need to run!" one of the villains said.

They started to move towards the door, but Morderkaiser, for all that he was huge, was fast.

Nightfall came down. The villain with the pompous costume and white mask was splattered across the windows. The only two left were a pair of girls and two of the huge monsters. They burst out of the front of the bank and onto the street, coming face-to-face with the Wards who were setting up to block them, but far too slowly.

Morderkaiser paused, then shifted his mace back over their shoulder. "Fast little mortals," he grumbled.

Taylor... Taylor couldn't let them get away.

She summoned two of her favourite friends, not that she had really met enough of them to call any of them her true favourites.

"Draven is here!" Draven said as he burst into the bank, arms raised like a gladiator in a coliseum waiting for his praise. He was a tall man, with defined muscles under a simple tunic and with the funniest mustache Taylor had ever seen. Not that she would tell her prideful friend about it.

The other appeared in a cascade of rainbow lights. A blonde girl, half a head shorter than Taylor, and arrestingly beautiful. Her bright blue eyes scanned the room, then landed on Taylor. "Hello," she said.

"The villains," Taylor said. "They went that way, on monsters."

"Monsters, eh?" Draven said. "They're mine!" He burst through one of the windows, even though the doors were still open, then started running after the villains.

Lux was far more composed. "I'll get them," was all she said as she stepped over broken glass and onto the steps outside.

Taylor got up to follow, but the brown-haired girl grabbed her hand and stopped her. "You, you killed them," she said before pointing to the two dead villains.

"Unless you wish to join them in death, unhand the summoner," Mordekaiser said. How such a big person could be sneaky was beyond Taylor.

"They're villains," was Taylor's only rebuttal before she yanked her hand back and followed her friends outside.

Draven had rushed ahead of the monsters, blades spinning as he blocked their path and extolled his virtues to anyone willing to hear and even those that weren't.

Lux shook her head. "That man in a menace," she said before a bright glow suffused her body and she began to float a foot off the ground. "Final spark!"

A rainbow beam shot out before her, so bright it seared, and even with her eyes closed Taylor could see the flashes or red and blue and yellow light. Then it was done and the air clapped back into place.

When she was done blinking to regain her sight, Taylor took in the streets which now had a straight furrow burned into it, the asphalt jutting out every which way and tick-ticking as it cooled off. Of the monsters and villains there were only black marks on the road left. The beam had ended in the front of an office building quite a ways down the street.

Draven punched his way out of the rubble, his tunic smoking and his hair swept back, but he had a wild grin on his face. "Draven has survived your sudden betrayal and has become stronger for it!" he roared.

Taylor smiled. Her friends could be quite silly. But she was lucky to have them.