David POV:
"David! Where are you?" Megan yelled through my earpiece. "Are you still in the understreets?"
"Yes." I replied. I had been helping Cody move boxes to the new base, and I had been pretty far away from the surface when Megan had called, telling me that Terms was attacking the city. "I'm about to get overground, so I'll get to you soon."
Once I got out of the dark underground streets, I launched myself up and looked around to get my bearings. It was pretty easy to find where Megan and Prof were fighting Terms, as I could hear gunfire and see buildings collapsing.
"What are you guys doing?" I yelled as I landed next to them. "Where are Abraham and Mizzy."
"Unfortunately, I sent them out to check on another Reckoner cell this morning." Prof said. "But we should be able to take Terms by ourselves."
"I could see Terms on the other side of the block. She was kicking down doors to find where Prof and Megan were hiding, but she wasn't expecting me. "We should move closer to street level, but we shouldn't get to close. She can pull things from the past or future to hit us with."
I moved down the stairwell to a couple stories above where Terms was walking while Megan and Prof landed on the other side of the street to distract her. This would be much easier if the whole team was here, but we would have to make do with who we had.
I tracked her as she walked down the street, but as I was about to pull the trigger on my rifle, she turned around and looked directly at me. My cover was blown. She started walking towards me, and I ran towards the roof. My job is to stay hidden, and get a shot off to see if they have any prime invisibilities. From the next floor up I fired a shot at her, but she disintegrated the bullet before it hit her, which is amazing. She must have aged the bullet in midair.
Once I got to the roof I ran a couple of buildings down and dived back downstairs into the building. To my dismay, she had changed her path and was still coming towards me, with Prof and Megan following after her. Terms entered the building, and Prof summoned a force field to levitate himself and Megan up to the window on my floor.
"Do you have any idea of what we can do now?" I asked. "She has at least 1 prime invincibility, maybe 2." We normally planned hits months in advance, so this was rather frustrating.
"I don't know." Prof said. "I wish we had Tia."
We all do. I added silently. She died by Prof's hand while he was under Calamity's darkness. We all really miss her. I'm sorry Prof. "Well we don't." I said. "We'll just have to work without her. I can ask the Archivists if they would talk to any of us, and we can work with what they give us. But for now we need to keep our heads in the game. We might survive, but the city won't."
Prof snapped his head up. I might not be cheerful and perky at the moment, none of us have been, but he still listens to me. Unless Megan's life or state of being is at risk, my head's on straight. (Which she is constantly shooting me for.)
"We need to corner her at the end of the street, since she shouldn't be able to disintegrate a bullet if the gun is right up against her head. We should split up and attack her from both sides. She shouldn't be able to track both groups at the same time."
Megan and I went up to go over the buildings, while Prof was going to use his tensors to dig under the street to the other side. While we were going across the buildings, through the walls, Terms started to follow us again. The odd thing was that she was moving jerkily, like a robot, but I can't think of any Epics that can control other Epics, only people.
We lost sight of her, and then she suddenly came at us from a stairwell. She raised her hand to point at us, and then tilted her head as if she was listening to someone through a mobile's earpiece, even though she wasn't wearing one that I could see. She tilted her head back up and said, "Bye."