The sound of a building crumbling made me look towards a couple of strands moving carelessly through the city. I recognized the area as where the PRT headquarters was. I saw a strand bending space, another stiff and stopping whatever it touched dead in its tracks, one made out of weaponry, and another desiccating the flooded streets around the PRT HQ. It was obvious high capes they belong to, and I could tell that some were missing.

"The other Protectorate must be on the lookout for the Teeth." Foil's voice made me briefly look at her. "Leaving them alone to be roaming around isn't something this city needs."

"They mostly operate in New York right?" Parian asked, leaning forward, closer to Foil.

"The PRT counts New York as their base of operations, but they can go to different neighboring towns and cause trouble. The Protectorate always made sure to intervene so things didn't get out of hand. I was brought along sometimes since my power was good enough to punch through whatever defenses they brought up, and I was far enough away to bypass Animos power dampening screams." Foil looked at Parian. "So I didn't break any of the rules about a Ward being in direct combat with villains."

"Ward?" Morgana asked. I looked at the van radio, where the cat's voice boomed out.

"Young heroes," Foil answered unsurely as she looked at the radio. "Young capes that join the PRT and are included into the Wards of whatever city the PRT are occupying. We are trained on how to use our powers. I was a Ward from New York."

"Hmm, so you defected or something then?" Morgana asked rather bluntly. I raised an eyebrow at that. Perceptive.

"H-How did you figure? Did Skitter tell you?" She looked at me, and I stared back at her.

"I haven't disclose anything to any of them," I told her honestly.

Morgana's purr came out of the radio. "It isn't that hard to figure out. You're working with a group of villains, you mentioned you were part of these Ward guys. Skitter here doesn't like them. It wasn't that hard."

"Right...gotta stop underestimating you, just because you're a cat," Foil admitted.

"Humph, better let that lesson stick." Morgana harrumphed at Foil.

Foil sighed as she carefully avoided the debris loitering the floor, making her way up the streets surrounding the destroyed area where the PRT HQ was. I blinked, noticing how steep the ramp up had become.

"Damn. Can you keep going?"

Foil swerved to the right to avoid the van from rolling back. She got us right on track until the van righted itself right onto the top. "Yeah, a little bit difficult, but I did it."

"Good job," I praised her, and Foil nodded. She perked up when Parian placed a hand on her shoulder.

Morgana made a sound. "Do you have a clear view of the crystal tower?"

I looked out of the window, surprised to see the cityscape so clearly here. "Yeah…"

"Okay, now reach into my glove compartment! There's a binoculars there."

"You seemed pretty prepared, Morgana," Parian complimented.

The car vibrated, a sound like purring coming from the radio. "Why of course! A thief of my caliber is always prepared for these sort of situations."

"That isn't something to be proud off…" Foil pointed out with some distaste.

I reached into the glove compartment, rummaged for the binoculars and pulled them out. "Got them."

"Okay, see if you can get where the rogue passenger is and your own targets."

I looked through the binoculars, seeing most of the cityscape up close. I frowned, adjusting the lenses. I saw the strands, but there was a disturbance in the red air that made it difficult to see. There was a strand made of air twisting and roaring.

There was another made of eyes, I could only recognize them as eyes due to some of them having pupils. But much like my strand, it was made of different shapes and forms. It wasn't human-like, simply weird and alien. The colors in the pupils were enticing, making me lean towards it, enraptured completely.

I felt my lips grow wet, my eyes become heavy. Thoughts were becoming slow. I felt like I was going to fall asleep. The eyes telling me to just stop and let myself sink.

"Skitter!"

The swarm outside let out a loud buzz. It had me recoiling back, blinking away the slothfulness around my eyes. I gasped, putting the binoculars down.

"Hey you okay?" Morgana asked, I looked up.

"Yeah, just got careless." I turned towards Foil. "The Teeth don't have any powers that relate to wind or hypnotic eyes do they?"

"I don't think so? Butcher's power don't have anything related to master category of powers. A shaker power that can produce anger on the target, but nothing like hypnotism..." Foil's answer had me nodding and already twisting to see another.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Parian pressed. "If you want…"

"I'm fine," I said a little forcefully, went back to the binoculars and ignored the looks I was receiving. Stop wasting time, I need to get this over with and get the hell out of this place. Rachel...I frowned, finding another set of strands with different representations of powers. They were located at the base of the massive tower.

"I've got a flowing strand, liquid but I can't make out the color thanks to the air. Another looks like a bunch of sharp claws and mouths, the air distorting around the mouth." I informed, looking at Foil.

"Sounds like Hemorrhagia and Animos alright. The teeth are at the base of that massive tower huh?" Foil asked. "Is there any that looks like an amalgamation of fourteen different powers?"

"F-fourteen!?" The Morgana van shook. "Is that normal?"

"Somewhat, Butcher is just a more insidious threat," Foil informed.

"With a name like Butcher, insidious sounds about right." Parian snorted.

"It doesn't matter, we got what we wanted," I affirmed. "The Teeth are by the tower...and looking at its position...it's near the portal."

The van shook a little. "Wait, wait! What about the rogue passenger? Is it there?"

I frowned and looked through the binoculars. I spotted a strand that was multiplying from the center, with the copies deteriorating in seconds. Another strand seemed to be taking things from its surroundings, being absorbed into it. There was one entangling itself between the strands, letting go and going after another. Then repeating the process.

Looking around the kaleidoscope tower, trying to spot the silver passenger, I groaned. "It does normally stay around the tower right?"

"It should be…" Morgan sounded disturbed. "Since arriving into this world, we've been coming here and keeping tabs on the silver witch. It always floated around the tower, touching the strands."

"Touching the strands?" Parian asked.

"Yeah, we don't know how it can make your powers go wild...but the fact that it kept touching passengers had us on the edge of our seats constantly. For those ten days we were scared that we would have to divide our forces and go into another Palace." Morgana sighed. "Fortunately, we only had to deal with a lie and Dinah's Palace."

"Lie?" Parian asked.

"The rogue passenger thing divert our attention on the wrong target when we were trying to stop it from destroying the world. It told us the name of our target...uh, I forgot his name…" Morgana groaned, then made an 'aha' sound. "Though I do remember his Palace being super organized and he his villain name was accord or something like that?"

We looked at him. "You went after Accord?" Foil asked incredulously.

"Yeah, but we never got around stealing his treasure. We had to pull back after Akechi realized that we were being fool in one of his typical solo stake outs."

I grunted. "So Crow isn't a team player then."

"I don't like him." Morgana confessed, then sighed. "But Ren...feels a connection with him and worries for him. Not that I blame him after what happened to everyone…"

"Everyone in your world died, right?" Parian asked, a noncommittal sound was her respond. "Do you miss them?"

"...like you wouldn't believe…"

I put the binoculars down, looking at the interior of the van with pity. "I don't see it."

"It has to be on the other side," Morgana answered rather quickly, a recovering from the sour mood. "It should just be floating around and trying to set up its next plot…"

I looked at the radio, feeling trepidation at his not so confident words. "Yesterday...you, Joker and Crow were quite up in arms about the rogue passenger being so close to Dinah's Palace…"

"..."

I groaned. "Could the rogue passenger...have gone into another's cape mental scape?"

"Damn it this can't be happening…!" Morgana now sounded scared. "If it can go into other Palaces freely then we won't have any idea whatsoever where it could be!"

I gulped, the fact that something so dangerous and powerful was free making me nervous. Damn it, fuck me...we need to figure this out, soon.

"How dangerous is this rogue passenger Skitter?" Foil asked me.

"It destroyed an entire world." I gestured towards the car around us. "It took control of my power and of Rachel's, Tattletale's too from how she talked when I found her. It's...damn it, what does that mean? If the passenger isn't in this place? Can it freely move about?"

"...It moved from our world to this one," Morgana bemoaned. "The possibility that it found a way to evolve in the last few days to not be stuck here is something I was honestly dreading. We need to keep tabs on that thing now!"

"First we move for the Teeth," I pressured.

"This is import— Shit!" Morgana cried out just as the floor beneath the van exploded, sending the vehicle sailing through the air, rolling. Morgana hissed, and Foil and Parian grunted as their heads crashed against the rooftop and sides. I banged my head against the window and cracked it, but despite how much I was ragdolling as the van went down, I already had my swarm moving.

The red air was filled with buzzing and clicks as I moved the insects towards the dark shape rushing towards the barreling van. Atlas flew up, and the swarm kept up with the large assailant, wrapping the spider silk around its legs so it would get tangled up. The shadowy figure stumbled, floor cracking as its face met the raised earth and scraped down after us.

The swarm moved on it, and I could feel the shape of the monster. It had long arms, bent legs, a long tail and hanging skin around its face. I made the bugs bite and sting the monster, trying to inject the paralyzing venom of my spiders. They all failed, unable to pierce the thing's body. I changed tactics, wrapping spider silk around it fast.

The van came to a stop, the side crashing against the side of a building and slamming back down on all four wheels. Parian and Foil were groaning, and Morgana was sputtering profanities. I pushed myself up, looking out of the cracked window as the shadowy monster struggled up to its feet.

"W-What was that…?" Parian moaned, shaking her head.

The monster looked up, three yellow eyes glaring heatedly at us. I felt my breath catch in my throat.

"Leviathan!?" The two girls besides me stopped, head snapping towards me and then out through the window. The shadowy Endbringer started to roar and rip the spider silk apart. I turned towards Foil. "Drive!"

Foil did as ordered, tires spinning roughly on the wet pavement before we shot forward. We all snapped back on our seats as we took off, the building wall behind us breaking apart as the dark Leviathan lunged for us. We rounded a corner, car tipping slightly before righting itself and we continued on. The Endbringer burst from the building and took off after us.

"How is Leviathan here!?" Foil was driving fast, taking sharp turns to avoid the pitfalls and debris.

"Morgana!" I growled.

"That's a Shadow! And it's a big one!" Morgana answered somewhat frantically.

"What do you mean a Shadow!? Are you telling me that thing is the Shadow of Brockton Bay? Or that an Endbringer has a fucking Palace too!?"

"I...I don't know if the giant Godzilla monsters have Palaces so maybe!? But I think it's just a Shadow patrolling Mementos! Like the Coil guys back in Dinah's Palace!"

I looked back; my swarm was slowing it down with spider silk. Its arms were stuck to its side, and its tail wrapped around its right leg with the webbing, making the monster limp towards us at a rapid pace.

"So not a real Endbringer?" Relief started to flood in.

"I don't think so," Morgana answered unsurely.

"Can you give me a fucking straight answer here!?" I snapped. "Joker said you were knowledgeable of this damn place!"

"Hey cool it!" Morgana bit back. "I'm in a hurry too!"

"Enough!" Foil cut in. "Where do we go!?"

"Take us back to the beach!" Morgana answered. "We need to use the same entrance to get out of here!"

"Go, go, go!" I snapped while pointing forward. There were two explosions on the road up ahead and two copies of the dark Leviathan lunged towards us.

"Damn!" Foil twisted the wheel harshly, tilting the van to move on two wheels and avoid the two monsters crashing into the road. The ex-Ward righted the vehicle and we were back on four wheels. The three shadowy Endbringers tore the streets as they moved after us.

"How far is the beach!?" Parian asked.

Foil grunted. "I...I don't know…"

"What?" I turned towards her, stopped and frowned. My swarm moved alongside the van, passing over the rubble, street and buildings. I looked around. "What the hell…!? Why does it feel like the streets are shifting?"

"Oh damn!" Morgana cursed. "Something is happening in reality! Cognition is being affected here!"

I could only stared incredulously at the van.