Discovery 1.6
Taylor was expecting the Nine to have followed her here, maybe an ambulance sent as a part of SAR or her teammates. But she could not have expected the surprising sight that was standing before her now.
Miss Militia, gun drawn, a strange look in her eyes.
Uncertain, checking and finding no one else nearby, Taylor took a deep breath, and hoping to have left no evidence as to her masked identity wearily asked:
"Can you please lower the gun? He needs medical help. Please!"
The Heroine seemed to hesitate a moment, before green light transformed the gun into a knife –and the blade was swiftly sheathed.
"Let me help you", the arrival told, and proceeded to help her get Danny down the stairs, in movements clearly experienced in carrying wounded people.
"Not that I'm not glad for the help, but what are you doing here?" The girl finally asked the question that bugged her.
Whatever answer was about to be said, Taylor didn't know; as just at that moment, they finished descending down the stairs, where two men in paramedic uniform just entered.
They looked alarmed to see Miss Militia, but quickly hid their nerves and after introducing themselves as paramedics sent to help the wounded, and one sent a look to Taylor that had her asking one of them to replace her as she hurried to dad's bedroom to pick up some thinks and the other to accompany her.
Once they got back upstairs, and Taylor spied her dad carefully being led outside by both the other man and The Gun Toting Cape, she turned to the man in the room with her, and stealthily preparing the insects she had been gathering, asked him who sent them.
"It's your teammates, ma'am, they sent us here to help, here, you shouldn't have this on the floor," And gave her the previously discarded mask. "I found it downstairs in the hall; I think you should take a better care of it."
Taylor wanted to have the paramedics keep silent about her wounded dad, and the encounter with the Protectoratee, but reconsidered due to the chances of Coil learning of Miss Militia here due to his spies in the PRT and amended her orders. "Don't tell Coil about the degree of harm done to my father-or I WILL find you.
Quickly picking and packing ID and clothes for her father, she opened the drawer containing her mother's necklace, and hurried to Danny-who was already in the car. She gave the paramedic already inside the bag, and then after confirming that Danny was okay without her going with him, that it was fine for her to remain behind, and all will be well, she put the necklace in her Father's hand. "I'm sorry I can't go with you, Dad, but you will be taken care of well, here, to remind you of home and family during the VERY SHORT time it will take you to recover.
It was only later that Taylor realized that she didn't notice Miss Militia at first, nor tagged-tracked her later due to a preexisting insect placed for tracking purpose before… one she put on her Dad's new 'Friend' –Miss Hannah…
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OMAKE- False discovery 1
Taylor felt like she had a headache just as bad as the one she had when she got a concussion from the bomb courtesy of Bakuda.
this was a nightmare, it was probably the late munching on some of the pizza that the orphans at her lair had for dinner before. Yes that must have been it!
There was no other logical explanation for what was happening otherwise, unless Murphy REALLY had it in for her.
It was like her life was some sort of a game, and some nasty nasty DM went for the most ridiculous ways to mess with her!
She pinched her self, and even had one of the ants around her bite her to make sure- AND TO NO EFFECT!
looking from the eyes of her insects only confirmed the sight, making it worse with the extra information their senses gave her.
It really was so.
She was standing in her living room, in her costume, with her mask in hand and a cloud of bugs around her, as on the couch i am never sitting on it ever again! were the unmistakably nude forms of - why god, why?! *SHUDDER, her father, and the woman Hannah, who was visiting more and more lately.
The surprised weary look on Hannah was not the worse... No it was the gun that appeared in her hand, in a familiar green glow, that brought to mind the source of the woman's familiarity, the reason her eyes seemed so familiar, especially at that moment.
This was my first draft at exposure scene, but was swiftly rejected by my critics and my inability to properly insert it, story wise.