I faded in and out of consciousness, dark visions coming to me, worse replays of my worst moments. Embellishments of my failures, my embarrassments.
Poison Resistance had levelled up!
Level 69!
Poison? I was poisoned? Did Armsmaster finally let me…
Everything was dark, wet and foul. I couldn't breathe. The taste on the back of my tongue making me gag in this wet hell. It felt like I was being vored or some gross shit…
Echidna!
I had been vored, after my clone had triggered without my powers. How long had that been to get a resistance to level sixty-nine? I was back at full health besides.
I had to get out of here. I equipped the jetpack my wonderful, darling, prescient Savannah had given me and began to claw and scythe my way out of Echidna's cursed belly, my Arc Blades burning through her flesh with the sound of spitting fat.
I felt cool air on my fingers and ripped my way out into freedom. I must have been in there for hours and hours, the sky was fully dark and the moon low on its way down.
I heard a commotion, panic. In the pale moonlight, I could see myself, over and over hundreds of times. Some of me looked close to how I had, others were as malformed as any of the clones I'd fought. They began to reach for me, I looked the closest one dead in the eyes over his huge beaky nose, the arm he was using more resembling a snake than anything human.
I could hear Echidna bellow in rage as I pulled myself completely free of her belly. My fingers grasped the cord on the jetpack and I pulled.
The world was ripped away from me as I was rocketed up into the sky and out of Brockton Bay, the lights of it a blur until I was too far to see even that.
New quest 'Kill Six Billion Greg Veders'!
Well, not quite six billion, but you get the gist.
0/? clones dead
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June 12th 2011
Alexandria paused the video released by 'Jack Bash', where the clone was watching warmly as one of my clones dropped his diss track on me, releasing every secret I had including everything I knew about Cauldron and the end of the world.
It was super cringe.
Brockton Bay had been abandoned in the same way Ellisburg had been abandoned. Jack Bash and Echidna owned it now, the place populated by clones. All together, with my clones included, they were an S class threat and there were talks to have the entire city razed to the ground.
"You're going to come out and deny all of it."
I nodded, shifting in my chair. We were in her office, in LA, where I had been moved 'for my own safety'. In fairness, living just a few hours away from thousand of your own clones who possessed an insane zealous fervor for your death and suffering was probably a good idea, but, it meant leaving everyone behind.
"Then you're going to have to make a choice," Alexandria continued. "Do you stand with us, or apart from us? There is a lot of work to be done and I need to know which hands are on deck."
I sighed a long, painful, drawn out sigh.
You have rejected the 'Anti-Cauldron Operations' questline!
'Proud Cauldroneer' questline opened!
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Eventually, Scion stopped thinking.