"The Siege Engineer and the Loose Cannon"(A Champion Concept Short Story)

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This is not a skin or champion concept, but it is part of a champion concept. The concept was a wall 'o text and this bit was too big to put it in the original post. Anyways, enjoy!

Knock Knock

The door opens ever so slightly, so that whoever is inside can see who's there at the door.

"Jinx! It's Colt."

"Oh Colt! It's you darling." She says in a friendly manner, something that is not very common of Jinx to do, as she opens up the door. "Do you have this months' shipment of my grenades already or what? I've been waiting foreeeeever."

"About that... Jinx. We need to talk!" After hearing this, Jinx lets him come into her hideout.

"Let me guess... You've gone soft haven't you?"

"Humm... Yeah! Sort of... what makes you say that?" He says, as he is sitting down on Jinx's couch.

"You always were a little soft." She says, as she's sitting down on her coffee table in front of him. "You made guns for others but never for yourself! I'd call you a chicken if I didn't know any better. But nope! You're just a nice guy."

"I guess you're right. The truth is, I saw what my weapons are really doing to people... To innocent people."

"What's the matter? You were building weapons!!" She says with a huge grin on her face, something that was common of her to do. "Weapons are made to blow up stuff. Remember?"

"Yeah! You keep reminding me... But, this time it was different. I saw it with my own eyes..."

"But what about me? You've seen me blow up stuff all the time!"

"I know! But... it's different with you Jinx. You know that better than anyone."

"Yeah. I guess..." She says, as her face turns red. Colt smiles at her. Then he keeps talking after a short silence.

"By the way, I saw what you did to the Police Headquarters the other day. Thanks for not blowing it up with all those people inside. I know you only did it 'cause of me."

"Hey! I just like blowing STUFF up. Sometimes that also means people, but you're my friend and you don't like that kind of stuff, so I don't do it... too often..." She says grinning, as if she missed blowing up everyone that got in her way. "Besides, where would I be if I blew up the police headquarters with Fat Hands and Cupcake inside?"

"Yeah... The police don't see the good in you, but I do... Heck! You could even be Jayce's sidekick someday if you really wanted to." He says, chuckling.

"That ego-filled self-acclaimed 'Hero of Piltover'? Paaaaass!" They look at each other for a short while, than chuckle a little bit.

"But, Jinx... I don't think you understand what I came here to say." He says as his expression becomes saddened.

"So... you can't make weapons for me anymore right?" She says with an understanding yet sad tone.

"Y-yeah! How'd you...?"

"We're friends for years, Colt! I can read you like a book."

"I guess... But, aren't you mad?"

"Oh darling... I'm ALWAYS mad!!! But, I don't mind if you don't make weapons for me anymore. On one condition that is!" She says, getting up, to look down at Colt, as if she was attempting to impose herself.

"What is it? If it's letting you blow up people without bugging you, you can forget it!"

"No no no! Not that! That's a conversation for another day..." As she says this Colt sighs, remembering that Jinx may be good deep down, but that she'll always be a criminal. Jinx then stops talking for a while and looks at him with a friendly smile. "I want you to teach me."

Colt snaps out of his train of thought and replies: "Teach you what?"

"How to make my own weapons! How to patch up Fishbones whenever I accidentally throw him from a 10-feet building. How to fix Pow-Pow's accuracy. How to build Flame Chompers when I run out... All that stupid technical stuff!"

"Really?!" He says surprisingly as he gets up. He totally forgot what he was thinking just a moment ago. "You want me to teach you? I've never taught anyone before!"

"Yeah! Besides..." She says as she gets close to Colt and as she puts her hand in his chest. "That way we can still spend some time together..." Colt blushes and puts his hand on top of Jinx's hand, while he says:

"Then, of course I'll teach you..." They look at each other's eyes deeply for a short while, then both open up their eyes wider as if they were in shock, when they realized what they were doing. They both get away from each other and look in the opposite direction, with embarrassed expressions on their red faces.

"Theeeeeeen.... What are you gonna do now?" She asks as if she was trying to change the subject.

"Well... I'll still build machines. But whenever I build weapons I'll use them for myself only."

"Are you gonna try to be a hero or something?" She says, while she looks at him again.

Colt slowly turns to her and says with a humble expression: "... yeah! That's the plan."

Jinx starts laughing and tells him jokingly: "Haha! So YOU'RE gonna be Jayce's sidekick!!" They both laugh.

Colt then interrupts the laughter and says: "Ok. I really have to go now Jinx. TEK and ATT need some repairs back at the shop."

"Ok....." She says looking sad. As Colt walks towards the door, she grabs his hand and says with a worried expression: "Please, be careful!"

"What did you say?" He asks, although he fully understood her, he just couldn't believe Jinx of all people would say something like that.

"Be careful Colt! You made weapons for some pretty dangerous people. They could hurt you since you're stopping giving them weapons!" Jinx says with a face that almost appears as she's going to cry.

"Woah! Jinx. You're the last person in the world I thought would ever warn me to be careful!" He says smiling, while he remembers why he saw good in her in the first place. Jinx chuckles a bit and wipes away a tear in the corner of her eye. "You look different today... SUPER DIFFERENT. What's wrong? You've done some pretty dangerous things yourself."

"I know! But... it's different with you Colt. You know that better than anyone." Jinx says, just as he had told her a moment ago.

"Yeah. I guess..." They look at each other in a moment of silence again. This time smiling and blushing at the same time. Colt then starts laughing and as he interrupts the silence and he says:

"You can let go of my hand now!" Jinx lets go of his hand in a split second, and blushes making her face look as if it was entirely red, while Colt laughs. After laughing for a short moment he leans over, kisses her forehead and says:

"See ya later Jinx." She stares at him as he walks away and leaves the hideout.

After he leaves, she lies down in the couch with a huge smile on her face. Not her usual trademark grin, no. But a smile nonetheless. Not even Jinx herself knew what that smile on her face was. After about an hour of just lying down and smiling, she sighs and says to herself:

"Great! Now I'm bored..." But, as she says this, she looks to her side only to see Fishbones. She grins. She now has something to do...

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