Author's note: Welcome back to LiFS! Time to end the Episode. I'll take a small break to plan out the next episode's events (Only about as long as it usually takes to pump a chapter out, don't worry), and then we'll go on to Episode two. Until then though enjoy the final part.
Disclaimer: I don't own Life is Strange or any of the OCs except my own, however I do own the Plot of this story.
As soon as he was done speaking, Saranus fell over, unconscious. This left the girls to contend with the mess.
"Sooo..." Caroline said after a moment. "We should probably get them somewhere..."
"Yeah." Mace said furiously walking up to them. "We should send The Liberated Bitch to Hell." She demanded, picking up The Liberator's knife.
Kathrine was in front of her then. "That's not what we came here to do and it's not something I will let you do." She warned. And as she spoke, Mr. Nutz appeared from out of her pocket and chittered in it's most threatening manner. Which wasn't saying much.
Caroline took this point to interject. "No one is going to kill anyone!" She stamped her foot to accentuate this point. "We can take everyone back to my place and sort out what their vision was about there, then we can decide what to do with the Liberator." She said, her tone as commanding as she could get it.
"Whatever, why don't you take the Psycho-Bitch in Saranus' car if you want to keep her around so badly. She ain't going in mine." Mace said, turning and walking over to her boyfriend and lifting him onto her shoulders. "Ugh, your so heavy." She complained quietly.
Kathrine picked up Saranus in a similar manner, before looking at Caroline. "I, uh, kinda don't want to ride with a murderer but umm..you can take her knife, y'know just in case she wakes up on the way." She laughed, kicking the long, bloodstained knife over to Caroline. She then quickly turned and left, catching up with Mace a lot faster than she probably should have been able too, since Saranus was no small kid.
Caroline bent over and grabbed the knife, shrugging and sliding it into her pocket. Then she walked over to The Liberator and, rather than to try lifting her up on her back, lifted her bridal style and carried her to Sarunas' car, which was still running and seemingly undamaged.
Opening the passenger's seat, she set The Liberator into it and buckled her in. Then Caroline crossed over to the drivers side and pulled the door open. She quickly sat down and buckled in. She noticed that Mace and Kathrine had left a while ago, which was probably a good thing since she'd need to get around her to leave otherwise.
Swapping to reverse and pulling out of the Junkyard, Caroline started driving to her house.
Moments ticked by in silence.
Until, the Liberator started to talk softly. Clearly she was dreaming. "'Care, stop..come back.." She mumbled. "I miss you.."
Caroline watched for a moment, before turning back to the road and holding her breath, the last thing she wanted (or needed) was for The Liberator to wake up and strangle her, and for some reason or another her powers seemed to cancel out The Liberator's.
The Liberator turned on her side. "Don't you fucking ignore me.." She growled, eye's tightening out of anger.
Caroline sped up. The other last thing she wanted was for her to wake up before they got home. And tied her to something. That would be nice too.
She let out a breath before sucking in another, and yet the killer didn't speak any more. She seemed to still be having her dream though...
Oh well, not like it mattered, she was home! To her surprise, Kathrine and Mace hadn't arrived with the girls yet. That's cool, she needed to do something first anyway.
Getting herself and The Liberator out of the car, Caroline carried her to the front door and slipped inside using her powers. She then went upstairs to her parents room and into her Father's special "Adventure Supplies" Cabinet. She was glad her dad had this stuff, being a self-proclaimed adventurer sure had it's uses sometimes. Grabbing a ton of rope and running back downstairs, Caroline put The Liberator (who she had dumped unceremoniously on her couch) into a kitchen chair and began tying her down. She wrapped the rope around her several times around before tying a not around it. Then, noticing the few feet of rope left, she tied her hands in a way so that not even her fingers could move. Then she grabbed the chair and moved it into the Living room.
It was then that she heard a knock at the door. Walking over to it and pulling it open, she saw Mace, Kathrine, and two awake boys.
"Hi guys, I tied the Liberator up in my living room, want to see?" She asked, trying to make levity of the situation. As it would seem, she was not required for that task.
"Hey!" A voice cried from the other room. "Let me the fuck out of this trap! I don't do BDSM, and I definitely wouldn't do it with a rope!" She called. And then. "...Or would I? Certainly rough enough..."
Sarunas, without a word to Caroline, pushed past her and into the living room to face the Killer face-to-face.
"You saw what I did, you know how this is going to end." He said, and then Robbie came up from behind him.
"Yeah Liberator, I know for a fact that you don't wanna die." He said, crossing his arms.
She laughed at the two teens. "You idiots don't know what your talking about. How do you know I don't want to die? I do kill people for a living in obvious ways, I was barely trying to kill you guys in our little fight. Honestly, I'm probably more suicidal than you think." She laughed again. "Or am I just crazy?"
Sarunas completely ignored her. "I do know one thing about you." His eyes darted in the direction of the girls before returning to her. "You care about one thing that isn't yourself. And you know there's only one way of saving it."
The Liberator averted her gaze, green eyes disappearing from under a veil of red hair.
After a moment of intense gazes on her, The Liberator mumbled quietly.
Caroline was the only one who spoke. "What?" She asked.
The Liberator looked up at her in surprise and shock. "You even sound like her. I can't believe I'm just hearing this." She whispered, before shaking her head. "I said, fine I'll help you." She growled angrily. "Now untie me." She commanded. "I hate rope."
Everybody exchanged a glance. "Do you think we're stupid or something? You're still a serial killer, we aren't going to let the Telekinetic murderer out."
"We shouldn't let the bitch out at all.." Mace whispered.
The Liberator quickly responded. "What was that Haku?" She asked. Everyone looked confused. "Haku? From Naruto?" The Liberator continued, before sighing. "That show about Boruto's dad?"
At this everyone seemed to understand, but no-one seemed to get the reference. "Look it's funny because she's actually a-" She kept talking, but no sound came out.
Mace glared at her, and the Liberator rolled her eyes and shut up. Mace released the power, and almost immediately she was talking again.
"Ok, Ok, I won't tell yet. Anyway." She stopped mid sentence as her eyes changed to red and darted left. Mace was sent sailing left. "I could do that from the beginning. Let me out now that I chose not to snap all of your necks?" She batted her eyes prettily for emphasis. "Please?" She falsely begged.
Sarunas, in response, untied her.
Once her arms were freed, she smiled. "Name's Andrea. It's been a pleasure." She said, before using her Power to fling everyone away from her and take off running.
Well, not everyone. Caroline might not have always been the smartest tool in the shed, but she knew when the Super-Villain was about to do something bad. So, before Andrea was freed, Caroline held her breath.
She stepped in front of her, and drew her knife from her pocket. Andrea's eyes widened in recognition. "Give me that!" She roared, trying to snatch it from Caroline's hands to no avail. "You don't understand, that's a gift! GIVE IT BACK!" She yelled, tackling her, but only succeeding in passing through her.
Rats ran up then and tackled Andrea, claws out and ready to defend his Master.
Caroline pulled him off her before any damage could be done. "No, bad Rats. Don't attack the Serial Killer guest. She can't hurt me any-ack!" She was cut off as Andrea lifted her into the air.
With her eye twitching out of anger Andrea spoke. "Knife. Hand now Please."
Before she could comply, Caroline was dropped as Andrea was tackled to the ground and tied up once again by her friends.
This time it was a hog-tie position. "Damn it." She sighed as she was dragged onto the couch.
"Alright, alright fine. I'm serious this time. I'll help you out on three conditions." She said.
Sarunas crossed his arms. "Within reason or no deal."
Taking this as a sign to speak, Andrea gave her demands. "One: You untie me and give me back my knife. Two: You find me a place to live that has a working shower, I stink, probably. And three.." She looked him dead in the eye. "If I help you agree to let me walk once I'm done. Small price to pay to save the world, right?"
Sarunas considered for a moment. "Alright, but if you betray us for even a second your getting thrown into the cell you belong in. We clear?"
Andrea grinned evilly. "Crystal."
Taking the knife from Caroline, Sarunas cut Andrea free and handed her knife to her, with some hesitation.
Everyone readied themselves for an attack the instant he did, but it never came. She stood, rubbed her wrists, took out a cloth from her right jean pocket to clean her knife with, then she plopped down on the white chair to their left and looked at them.
"Well bossman?" She asked, eyes flicking up to Sarunas. "What's your plan?"
Surprised, everyone calmed down, even Mace to an extent.
Everyone took a seat. Robbie sat first, Mace got on his lap and straddled him. Sarunas sat next to them and looked them up and down. "When did this happen?" He asked.
"Literally seconds after the meeting." Robbie laughed a little awkwardly.
Caroline shrugged and took the seat closest to Andrea who bristled at being so close to her. At least at first but, like a cat getting used to a new owner, she slowly calmed and sat back down.
Kathrine sat in between everyone and kinda laughed. "Y'know I shipped you two from basically the first moment I saw you guys in the same room. I mean c'mon, Bad-Boy and Popular Girl? It's too perfect."
Andrea laughed quietly to herself, something only Caroline could hear. "Yeah, Popular "Girl"." She whispered just as quietly.
It took her a moment to piece this together. Getting nothing, she decided to pull out her phone and look up the name Andrea had called Mace earlier, Haku. The first thing that came up was: "Top ten most famous Anime Traps".
Caroline thought about it for a moment, and slowly pieced it together. "Ooooh." She said, before looking at Andrea. "That's not very nice!" She smacked her arm.
Andrea looked surprised for a moment, before smirking and rubbing her arm. "I'm kidding...for the most part." She chuckled meanly, before producing a small button. "Went to last year's LGBTQ parade in Washington, mostly to try my skills on Bi guys, but also cause I am, well, Bi." She explained.
Andrea and Caroline suddenly realized that everyone was looking at them. Mace crinkled her nose. "Bi huh? Gross." She said, clearly trying to hit Andrea back for what she did to her.
"I'll tell you what's gross: Lying." Andrea replied, brushing some of her red hair out of her face.
Before this could go farther, Saranus cleared his throat. "We need to start looking for other people with Powers like ours." He said, catching all their attentions. "We need to find five people. A Stoner, a Leader, a Warper, an Illusionist, and an Ambitious person. All these people have these traits, and they have to have Super-powers." He explained. "Anyone know someone else with super-powers?" He asked.
In response, Caroline lifted her hand.
"Someone who is not in this room right now?" He asked.
Caroline lowered her hand.
...And Kathrine lifted hers. "Well, at the Blackwell dorms I met a girl with super-strength before I met you guys. She had uh..." She trailed off trying to think before snapping her fingers in realization. "Asian features."
Saranus nodded. "Ok, ok. We need to find this girl. She's our link." He looked at Robbie, Mace and Kathrine. "You three and me are going to Blackwell." He turned to face Caroline and Andrea. "Caroline your going to watch Andrea. She seems to hold back around you, and your powers seem to counter hers. So, I guess your going to be housing her."
Caroline made a face. "She better not do anything else bad around here or else your going to be the one living with her."
Andrea frowned before kinda giving a small smile. "Cool, I'm going to find a bathroom and shower." She said, turning and walking away.
She walked the halls for a moment, before peaking her head back out into the living room. "So this is awkward but-"
"Upstairs, third door on the left." Caroline replied.
As that little interaction happened, Saranus, Robbie, Mace and Kathrine left, Saranus hurrying his allies out as fast as he could.
Shaun
He and Johnny stepped out of the truck and started walking over to the Police Station. It was a wide and plain building that, like most things in Arcadia Neo, had a kind of new gleam to it. In front a sign titled "Arcadia Neo Police Station" told you it's purpose.
"Hey man, I'm not exactly friendly with the cops, weed isn't exactly legal in Oregon yet." Johnny whispered as quietly as he could to Shaun. "So can you please tell me why I'm walking into the proverbial hornets nest?" He demanded, his usual carefree demeanor nearly completely gone.
"Because I need you to help me look for the vigilantes after I'm done here, but fine." Shaun rolled his eyes and pulled out his keys. "Go sit in the car."
Johnny smiled and accepted the keys. "Thanks bro, promise that your car will still be here when your done." He said, taking off.
Shaun, again, rolled his eyes and continued up the stairs.
Entering the Police Station and turning to the receptionist, Shaun spoke solemnly "I'd like to report a missing person." He told her.
She was a small, rotund, woman of thirty years, and she seemed to be used to getting these kinds of reports. "Ugh, I tell you what, ever since that Jefferson kidnapped those girls there's always been another missing person getting reported. Maybe you'd prefer going for a private eye? We have quite a list of missing people here." She said cynically.
Before Shaun could respond, a deep and masculine voice called from his office. "Take it down Sharon, or let me do it."
Sharon, as she was called, rolled her eyes. "I'm tired of hearing about it, David, why don't you do it?" She called back.
Within seconds a round, older man of about forty stepped out of the office. He had dark yet greying hair and brown eyes. He was decked in a full blue suit with the Arcadia Neo badge on it. This was Sheriff* Madsen. One of the few people who'd survived the storm-and the man who'd caught Mark Jefferson ten years ago.
Shaun, needless to say, had a lot of respect for the man.
David looked Shaun up and down, trying to place him. It took a moment, but he did.
"Say, weren't you that guy who-"
"Put a stop to that bar fight a few years back? The one with the guns? Yeah." Shaun interrupted, giving a small smirk at his achievement.
"I was meaning to thank you regarding that, but I suppose instead I could take personal time to hear about your case." David said, walking up and shaking Shaun's hand before motioning for him to follow him into his office.
Shaun did, and he took a seat at the Mahogany desk. The Sheriff followed suit on the other side.
The desk was made of a thick Mahogany wood and was very clean with only three real adornments: A computer and two picture frames that Shaun could barely see the contents of. What he could see though was that one picture was of the Sheriff and two smiling girls. One had brown hair and was in a beautiful wedding dress, the other had bright blue hair and was in a tux. David was in the middle along with another man, all were smiling. Shaun had no way of seeing the other photo from his position- even eagle vision couldn't help him here.
"So, what are the specifics of this missing person?" Sheriff Madsen asked, turning on his computer and readying his hands on the keyboard to start typing.
In response, Shaun pulled out a picture given to him by Ally. Her sister, Calypso, had brown, Latina, skin like her sister, and brown eyes. Unlike her sister she seemed to have a normal color for hair; brown.
Sheriff Madsen took one look at the photo and stopped dead. "Great, this case." He said, rubbing his eyes. "Sharon was right for once, you should have gone for a private detective." He added. "Look, like I told Miss. Intra I can't drop everything and go looking for some girl who got drunk and got involved with the wrong crowd."
Shaun glared. "You weren't even going to try to solve this case were you?" He demanded.
David glared right back. "That's not-"
"Were you?" He repeated, rapidly loosing respect for the man in front of him.
"I've done everything I can for her already! There's no leads, no credible suspects. And zero evidence that her sister is even still alive!"
"She doesn't seem to think so!" Shaun snapped. "There's a guy that she thin-"
"Baseless accusations, Mr. Matthews might be a piece of shit, but he's never commited murder or kidnapping. There's no reason for him to start now." Sheriff Madsen interrupted.
Shaun paused at that. He had a point.
"Besides, you do know who happens to be in town right now, right? The Liberator, or the Drainer or the Vampyr or whatever they want to be called next? Yeah, that psycho's in town, and you know who has to help the Feds catch him?" David jerked a thumb towards himself. "Me."
Shaun looked away. "There's no leads?" He asked.
"Nothing concrete, there was some idea that she might have gotten involved with 'The Stormers' but that little rat-shit gang couldn't steal candy from a store without the whole neighborhood hearing them, no way they'd be able to pull of a murder. Then there were my suspicions that it could have something to do with the Prescotts-never trusted them, even before their boy was found out to be crazy. Then of course you've got her theories about it being Josh Matthews, but he's clean as far as I can tell." He sighed. "Then it comes down to the fact that we've got a serial killer in town, so she could very well have been killed by her. But as my FBI friends are keen to tell me, that's not The Vampyr's M.O."
Shaun nodded. "Thank you for your time Sheriff." He said standing up. "Say, how's your personal life going, all this stress- maybe you and I could catch a drink." He then added. "As friends- I respect you a lot, but not in that way."
The Sheriff allowed a bit of a laugh to escape his throat. "Maybe once the serial killer problems stop I'll take you up on that offer. But things ain't so bad right now. Sure things are hard without J-my wife, but my daughter and her wife are pretty kind nowadays-always calling to make sure I'm alright. Well, Max does anyways, Chloe calls to see if I've, quote, "Caught the sonofabitch yet"." He smiled, picking up the picture of the two girls.
Shaun chuckled, before saluting. "Forgot to mention, my name's Shaun."
He then left, a little disheartened that he failed to get any help from the cops, but not entirely unhappy with the events that transpired there.
To count the list of good things that just happened to Shaun he just:
1. Met a man he admired and respected a lot.
2. Made friends with said man.
3. Got a small list of potential suspects.
4. On the way out he tipped over Sharon's soda.
That last one might have been his favorite.
A little.
Maybe...
Ok, a lot.
As he walked down the steps of the police station, Shaun saw a group of about four teens standing in front of his truck, talking to Johnny. Blinking his eyes to use his powers, he saw all four of them turn a bright golden color.
"Well this is new, someone's coming to me for once." Shaun mumbled to himself before walking straight up (or rather down) to them.
As he neared Johnny poked his head out the window and said: "Shaun look! It's Punisher and Batgirl!" He pointed a boy wearing dark clothing and a girl in a more...let's say revealing outfit.
"But I guess he'd be Male!Rogue, and she'd be black Screaming Banshee." Johnny corrected, tapping his chin.
Shaun rolled his eyes. "I only know one of those characters."
"SB is from DC." The other girl, the one who seemed to have a Squirrel in her pocket interjected. "Most people know...Rogue." She trailed off as she realized Shaun was looking at her."
"Anyway!" Johnny piped up again. "They want us to join their X-men group, but I told them that we're more Avengers and that our Iron Man is inside right now. Though now that I think about it your more like Nick Fury..."
Shaun rolled his eyes again. "Alright it was funny at first but now your just reaching. I look nothing like Samuel L. Jackson!" He then paused. "Would be cool if I did though..."
One of the two boys, the muscular black one, stepped forth. "Hey, my name's Saranus, this is Robbie, Mace, and Kathrine. I need you to gather your.."Avengers" as soon as possible. It's a matter of world-destruction."
Shaun held up a finger. "How'd you know I'd be here?"
"I predicted it, I have the power to see glimpses of possible futures. Usually these futures suck and I try my best to avoid creating them. In this case, I simply had a vision of the police station and decided to act on it." He explained. "Now seriously, I need you to call anyone else you may have met to the following address right now. It's a threat on the level of an Apocalypse." He said, handing Shaun a slip of paper with an address on it.
Suddenly Robbie saddled up next to Saranus and whispered: "Lets get out of here, me and cops don't go well.."
Saranus looked back at Shaun with pleading eyes. "Please." He begged, before they all left, piling into an older car.
Shaun looked at the address, then at Johnny who was looking with stars in his eyes. "Please...?"
"Fine." Shaun replied, pulling out his phone.
Saranus
"Make a left turn, up the hill. To the Prescott Manor." He commanded, remembering what his vision told him: There they made their plans. They have to stop them- but they needed them for now.
The Ambitious and the Illusionist.
Finding them was next, Saranus saw their plans laid out before him. Plans of world-domination, of world fame.
He couldn't care less as of now.
"Not much of a world to rule left over if that vision comes true.." Saranus thought grimly.
Nearing the manor, Saranus and Robbie hopped out and quickly pounded on the door.
Soon a teenage girl appeared, one they knew well, followed by a silver haired boy that they didn't know.
Saranus opened his mouth up to speak, but Lillian spoke first. "Save it. I already read your mind. Yadda yadda yadda, apocalypse." She rolled her eyes. "I'm sure you can handle some fire." She went to shut the door, but Saranus jammed his foot in.
"If you've already read my mind, then you know quite well that I'm not leaving without you and The Illusionist." Saranus said, determination fueling his voice. "And you know Damn well what'll happen if you don't come." He stopped, noticing that she had closed her eyes.
Anger boiled within Saranus, he did not like Lillian to begin with- this was only making things worse for them. "You want to get in my head, bitch? Fine let me show you what it's like in here.." He trailed off withing his own mind and brought forth the visions of the hellish world he had foreseen.
At once, there was a small weight that came off his mind as she pulled out.
"Holy shit, I know some of that is your own fears but- damn."
From behind the silver haired boy said. "Hey, uh Lillian, can I be let in on what we're talking about?"
In response she grabbed him by his collar and pulled him outside with her. "I'll explain on the way, we have to go really save the world now."
At this, he seemed to smile. "Really? Awesome." He replied, allowing himself to be dragged by her to the car she had taken to get here days ago.
As they walked they passed Mace. Lillian stopped dead. "Mace." She said simply, before digging in her pocket and pulling out a wad of cash. "Payment for-"
"For that info on the Intra girl, I know." Mace smiled and took the money. Then she gave a simple one armed hug to the popular girl. "Nice to see you again. Who's this guy hmm? Don't tell me that he's not your new-"
"Don't read into it too much, he's a business partner." Lillian interrupted, continuing to drag him back to the car.
"Well, that went better than expected." Saranus thought to himself
Caroline
Walking up to the bathroom and knocking on the door she called in angrily. "Hey! You've been in there for like an hour! And I can still hear the water running! Your wasting it!" She shouted, before adding. "Also I have to pee and there's only one bathroom in this whole house...Well I guess there's the one with Rats' litter box in it but..." She shuddered. "He's claimed that bathroom for himself.."
From inside she received no response. Glowering, dropping the new clothes she had brought for her guest, and grabbing the handle, she pulled the door open (shocked to find that it was unlocked), right as the shower stopped and a soaking wet Andrea stepped out.
There was a beat.
Then two.
And on the third Andrea smirked, lifted her arm to expose herself better, leaned on the wall and said. "Enjoying yourself?"
Caroline shut the door with several profuse apologies and promptly ran downstairs.
Andrea
She immediately dropped from the wall, feeling all the charm and bravado leave. To be completely honest, she was probably more embarrassed than Carrrrrr- Caroline was.
Sure, she'd been nude in front of others- sometimes even she had to satisfy her own libito- but, in front of Carrie- or even someone who looked like her?
It was both an exciting and terrifying thought.
She turned to the two towels that she had laid out for herself and wrapped one over her body and the other over her hair.
She then stepped outside, to find the poor girl and apologise herself, but then noticed that Caroline had been ever so nice as to leave her a pair of new clothes.
A red T-Shirt, skinny jeans, a pair of soft-looking pink panties and a bra, and two black socks.
Picking the undergarments up first, Andrea lifted an eyebrow and said. "Pink huh? Black is more my color. She dropped the Bra unceremoniously onto the ground and sighed. "Besides, she's no-o-ot my size." She laughed.
She grabbed the rest of the clothes up and left.
Upon exiting, fifteen minutes later, she looked different. Her usually unkempt hair was now stylized and beautiful, thick and voluminous, trailing behind her back. She had cut the belly off the shirt and had squeezed into the pair of skinny jeans.
She had also folded her old red and black clothes. With a plan to wash them later.
Downstairs she could hear people talking.
She went downstairs, and found a total of thirteen people
"Good, now the meeting can begin." Saranus said upon seeing her.
Author's note: Well I just lost a ton of work that I don't feel like fixing right now, so you guys are getting this. I'll just finish the meeting in episode two.
Fuck that's annoying. I had such a fun time writing that final scene. Whatever.
Reviews, I'll have more positivity here. I love hearing what you have to say
W. R. Winters: The Illusionist is what excites me the most, because I'm wondering what illusions can do to stop the end of the world (and by world I mean NA)
Me: Nothing really as far as you know. In the future I might- up, that'd be a spoiler~.
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flamesofthebluebird: Holy... I don't know what happened properly but it was so cool.
and damn, Mace scares me. Don't call her a boy unless you want to die man. like, seriously, she is scary as hell.
I wonder what will happen next?
Me: Yeah. I had a lot to regarding that chapter, it can probably look complicated. A couple more re-reads should help with your trouble.
Mace is terrifying when she wants to be. Andrea only barely survived, and she kills people for fun!
You'll see what comes next friend.
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fireandicephoenix: finally caught up! A lot has happened.
Poor Mace. She's so upset and pissed about being called a boy. She doesn't like that. and calling her Trap *shivers* I could not want to be Andrea. though, I love the anime reference.
I wonder what the vision is about?
that if they dont' find Shaun's group that they are all going to die or something?
I want Lillia and Mace to meet. I don't why. but things will be interesting when I do, I'm sure of it. espeically since you said at like chapter 1 or 2 or something, that they knew each other somehwere or something.
Poor Robbie, he has fallen for Mace's charm. Acutally, I don't know if that's good or bad. Maybe he can try and help her and stop her from turning evil? or turn back to the good side if she did turn on them.
I find it funny that Andrea is jealous of Mace's powers though.
seriously, I can't wait to see what happens next. things are getting really interesting.
Me: Your interpretation of the vision is mostly true.
Wish granted. Though I don't remember saying that they'd know each-other, though that does make sense since they're both popular girls and Mace likes to trade information.
Maybe Robbie can be a good influence on her...
Yeah, I like to use Andrea to insert humor into the story, and her jealousy is used to an extent to make a joke.
Glad your excited
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iamgoku chapter: Great chapter! A smooth continuation from chapter 9.
A lot to process, especially the visions
Nice work on the speedy update too. :D can't wait for chapter 11
Me: Thanks for the compliment, and here's chapter 11!
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UnknownLodger: I've just read these 10 chapters. One question.
What happened to the guy watching the girl play with her pet squirrel? Unless I completely missed bits of the following chapters.
Me: OH SHIT I FORGOT ABOUT HI-I-i...umm I mean I totally have a plan in place for him! He'll show up again in episode two! And he'll be, uh, super important. Yeah...
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TheDreamSketchCrew: Okay, I've been rereading some of these chapters to catch up and understand what's going on. There are three narrative focuses. Future vision and Edge lord's team is essentially about finding this super-powered murderer and preventing more mass killings. Andrea is basically in need of a hug and someone to talk to. I'm starting to get this vibe that she views herself as a tragic hero and that her loss of support requires her to act this way. That or Andrea sees no one understanding her warped struggles, which they won't.
I'd hug her, but she'd likely stab me to death or crush me with her telekinesis. I'd still die trying though. :(
Meanwhile, our team is trying to find this Calypso Intra for Ally which might connect to Andrea somehow.
I feel Johnny is still on point except for the whole immediately resorting to violence to incapacitate someone. I'm also surprised that no one gives any shits or witty comments regarding the girl, in a biker outfit, literally calling herself "Shield" based off her powers and trying to stop random crime. I know I'd probably freak out, gush about it or make some dorky joke at least.
The moment I liked the most was probably when Caroline's cat turned out to be a pompous asshole loving her owner only because of the girl's low-maintenance. Caroline freaking out over her movie and Sarunas freaking out over his job makes them both relatable.
(Well, I completely forgot about Lillian and Lloyd doing their own thing! Anyway, keep up the good work and don't stress yourself. Your )
Me: Well, now there's only one real plotline; Sarunas and his vision. Though Andrea definitely needs that hug. Your interpretations of Andrea are correct, the question only remains: Why? I've left small hints to answer that question throughout this and other chapters, maybe someone with a keen eye can put together a good theory...
If you hugged her, she'd probably be taken aback and assume that you were trying to get her emotional support. Depending on her mood she will either stab you or hug you back. (But she'd secretly be very happy that you were giving her any kind of affection, she just wants to keep up appearances).
To be fair on that scene, the crazy guy was threatening people with a gun. As for Shield, I'm sure Johnny was telling jokes to Landon in the back seat, Shaun was just to busy to notice. You have to remember that I'm writing these from specific points of views. Whomever I say is being followed is who your going to have to get information from.
Rats isn't a total asshole, he still loves his master- he's just a cat, they tend to be jerks. I try to make characters as relatable as possible. Plus, I can relate to any of those struggles easy, making it easy to write.
(Don't worry, I completely forgot about a character too. We all make mistakes)
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mayurie: Heya there- sorry I haven't reviewed in a while, but I'm here now! Hopefully will be more later, but hey this was an awesome update! Really great job, and it's not so long from the last updated I think, so also good job with that! I really like the fighting scene between Andrea and the others, and wow that revelation from Mace was a surprise. Still, rude of Andrea to say... stuff like that. Don't you worry Mace, I still like you!
Anyways- so Caroline is a lot like Andrea's old friend huh? That's definitely interesting- I wonder if the others would use that to their advantage? But then again, maybe our antagonist would be more civil towards them knowing that the world would end if they don't work together and find the other super-powered people? Either way, I'm really looking forward to the next chapter! Gotta say, I love the way you're writing Caroline- good job!
That's all from me, again good job with this chapter! I'm looking forward to read the next chapter!
Me:It's totally fine, reviews and things just let me know that people mare reading and they give me a good dose of dopamine whenever I see there's a new one so I usually wait until I have a decent pile to update. Also how was that a surprise? I could have sworn I said something about it in chapter one. Don't worry, Andrea's kidding-mostly.;)
Caroline is similar to Andrea's friend in nearly every way, so of course Saranus and friends are going to use and abuse such knowledge. Like I said at the beginning- Andrea could care less about the town or even the whole world, the only thing she care's about is her therefore the only reason she's helping is to keep her alive.
Thanks for the compliment and review!
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LostValkyrie: Quite a bit of bouncing between character perspectives. Felt more noticeable than usual (Possibly just from the middle section going "Mace Andrea Saranus Andrea" with equal to a short paragraph each).
Tried to be consistent with reviews, sadly been difficult during exam period so I've only now had the chance to catch up on this chapter.
This chapter definitely helped being added soon after the previous part. Although that may be difficult to keep to over time. Hope to see a couple updates over the summer months. Can tell you're more than capable from the past 10 chapters
Me: Yeah, I had to do that in order to showcase every aspect of the fight and how the characters felt throughout- with Andrea's view being one of the more important ones.
Totally fine, I know how tests can be and I won't fault you for letting them take priority, but now that it's summer you won't have such a problem, unless you do all year round schooling?
Don't worry about updates over the summer, I have a rough idea for the next few episodes and I'm not going to quit for as long as I can. I am more than capable of ten- my longest has been twenty-five-ish before interest on the readers' part ran out
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Well, that is so- oh wait
*I changed David's position to Sheriff because I realized that such a small town would probably not have a chief.
Ok, that is it so
Until Next Time True Readers!
