Imagine being a hero, and Reggie has a crush on you.
Anon requested: “Imagine where male reader is a superhero, with powers like Vixen from Legends of Tomorrow, and Reggie Mantle is your biggest fan and you kiss him”
Vixen is a DC comics superheroine in possession of the Tantu Totem, which allows her to harness the spirit of animals. She’s a total badass and a queen.
This is a superhero au, so Riverdale is now Riverdale City (RC for short).
Y/f/c = your favorite color
Riverdale City has enough strange things going on that they had their own mafia and meta human supervillains. And with the rise of crime, there came a superhero. The first time anyone saw him, they thought they were just another bad guy.
Until he stopped a bank robbery and left the robbers tied up for the police.
From that point on, Riverdale recognized the newly dubbed ‘Beast’ as their hero. He was only trying to help the people of the city.
Reggie was waiting in line for his coffee in the early morning. There were places with shorter lines or the coffee machine at work, but this place had the best coffee in his opinion (and he didn’t trust the Stone Age coffee maker that Archie Andrews brought in). As long as he got to the coffee shop early enough, he wouldn’t be late for work.
The TV in the corner of the room was playing the morning news. The dark haired news anchor on screen was talking about the latest crime spree that had been cut short by the Beast.
“The Beast stopped several shooters from entering a public library yesterday evening, saving many young readers and librarians from a trip to the hospital. Police reports say that these men are currently unknown to having any connections to the recent mafia power surge in the area, but investigations are being held. Let’s go to Moose Mason with the sports.”
“Thank you Midge. In other news, the Riverdale Bulldogs led a stunning victory against Greendale last night, scoring...” Reggie tuned out the sports anchor and went back to his phone. It was really any news about RC’s vigilante that interested him. If he was being honest, Reggie would admit that he had a small crush on the hero.
Besides, if he really wanted to know the sports news, he could just go to work. Being a journalist had its perks.
The barista called his name, and Reggie took his coffee and left. Arriving in front of his building for work, Reggie was about to walk in when a large boom and screaming erupted from inside. He briefly saw his coworker y/n among the many faces running away before he caught Archie by the arm.
“What the hell is going on?”
“Boomer came into the office, started threatening F.P. to make an announcement on television. He refused and Boomer started making shit explode.” Boomer was one of the worst villains that the city had seen. Formerly an employee at the office, Penny Peabody had been fired for assaulting a younger staff member after they accidentally spilled her coffee.
“As far as I know he’s still in there. He told everyone to head for the fire stairs.” Reggie cursed and headed for the building. Thank whatever higher powers there were that the office was on the third floor and not the twentieth.
“I’m going to go find him, stay here and make sure nobody goes in.” Reggie left Archie at the door and sprinted through the last of the stragglers towards the stairs. Reaching the third floor, he found the office was silent and dark. Everything was thrown about and burned.
Ignoring the smoke, Reggie made his way to F.P.’s office and peeked inside. His boss was pinned under the boot of Peabody, and she was getting ready to make him a smear on the floor. Reggie grabbed a stapler on the ground by him and chucked it at her head. It made contact with a loud thud.
Boomer whipped her head around, eyes glowing-literally glowing-with rage. Her gaze fell on Reggie and a grin grew on her face. Reggie started thinking that he had fucked up pretty badly now.
“Well, isn’t this a surprise. Looks like some of your employees actually care Jones.” She took slow steps toward Reggie, a fireball forming in her hand. “In all honesty I thought it would have been your son that came, but I guess he can wait till later.” Boomer threw the firey explosive at Reggie. He raised his arms and closed his eyes, knowing it would do nothing to protect him.
The fireball exploded, but it didn’t hit Reggie. Opening his eyes, Reggie saw a man in a black and y/f/c suit standing in front of him, the fire seemingly not affecting them. Holy shit.
“Boomer. And here I thought you were in prison. Guess I was wrong. How about you let these two go outside, and we can go one on one, fair fight?” The vigilante kept their tone casual, nudging Reggie with their foot towards the door. Reggie saw F.P. was crawling over there already, his foot twisted at an odd angle.
“You should have burned!”
“Superpowers. Animal traits. Some animals can withstand extreme heat. Now that that’s out of the way, can we please skip to the part where you go to jail?” Boomer screamed with rage and blasted more fire at Beast. Reggie dashed and grabbed F.P., dragging him towards the elevator. He didn’t want to chance the injured man’s foot on the stairs.
Jones was already in the elevator when another fireball landed close to Reggie, knocking him away from the metal doors. F.P. started to try to get to his employee, but Reggie gestured for him to get away. He could take the stairs. The elevator closed and headed for the ground floor, leaving Reggie in the middle of a meta human fight.
He was nearly to the stairs when a hand grabbed him by the throat and lifted him up. The hand grew hot, almost burning against his skin. Boomer glared angrily at the hero across from her.
“One more step, and the idiot gets burned alive.” Beast stood still and raised his hands up, taking a step back.
“Alright then.” Boomer hoisted Reggie up and threw him towards a window, making her way towards the stairs to escape. Beast used his powers to become faster and moved to catch the journalist before he went crashing through the glass.
He caught Reggie just before he went out the window. Beast set the man down against the wall, checking for any major injuries. There was slight bruising and some cuts, but the dark haired male would be fine.
“Are you alright?” Reggie blinked, still a little shocked from nearly dying. He said the first words that came to mind.
“Has anyone ever told you...you’re a badass?” The masked male smiled.
“Never to my face, no. Can you walk?”
“Good. Get downstairs and call yourself an ambulance.” Starting to stand, Beast was about to leave before his arm was grabbed by the journalist.
“Don’t suppose I can get an interview?” Beast blinked, y/e/c eyes surprised behind the black mask. Then the hero started laughing.
“Most people just say thank you. But yes, I’ll find you later for one.”
“Promise?” Beast took Reggie’s face in his hands, pressing a gentle kiss to his lips. After a moment he pulled away and smiled.
“Of course. Gentlemen’s word.” Beast stood and ran towards the stairs, pursuing Boomer to stop her. Reggie touched his lips and grinned.
This was going to be one hell of an interview.
Yes, your hero name is Beast. Vixen didn’t sound right for a dude superhero.
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