Amy 2011 May 12th

I was tired, oh so tired when the alarms blared out, I had been working all day and night, and now... fuck. I knew what those bells meant.

"OFFICIAL ENDBRINGER TRUCE, OFFICIAL ENDBRINGER TRUCE, EVACUATE THE CITY!"

We had three days, three days to get every civilian out of Brockton Bay before everything went into the shitter. It was... no it wasn't too soon, attacks happened once a month now with the survivors attacking more often to make up for the loss of the others. This was war and it was comming to Brockton Bay.

"Who's attacking?"

I had the TV turned on. Zeus, fucking hell that meant all our electronic infrastructure was going to be fucked. Zeus was a killer, one of the worse options to go up against.

"Damn it."

I had been stuck spending the last week either at school or at the hospital. I had spent quite a bit of my time sleeping on a couch, it had been bad really bad, the first couple days had been an all out fight between the police and the Empire, which got worse when the Butcher decided to play. Then you had Oni Lee, who had somehow survived the disaster going on a suicidal rampage against the police, and oh yeah the fucking Undersiders have been sighted here and there, helping to create more chaos.

Skitter was determined to own this town and didn't give two shit who got hurt in her little games, fucking bitch. I swallowed my anger, my rage, my hate and watched as the city grew silent. I looked at the orderlies.

"I have preperations."

"But-"

I stared at them.

"This city is going to war, and I'm going to have to fight in it, my family's armor needs to be in tip top shape."

With that I finished the last room full of people and went home. Mom was waiting for me with tired eyes.

"The rest of the family will be here soon."

When they arrived I checked their armor, checked their bodies and then did every slight improvement I could, a little reaction time here, a little muscle there, all the while we reviewed the maps of the city, Zeus's known tactics, what allies we could potentally look forward to, trying to anticipate the plans of the involved Thinkers.

The city shut down as people started leaving in droves, school was awkward, the longer you remained the harder it would be to get out, and if you were there on day three that was more or less a promise that you were going to fight. That earned you some respect but it could get you killed, by the end of the first day, half the city was gone, by the end of the second it was 90%. On day two the army and the marines came in. By day 3 the armies of a hundred of capes from all over the world were in the city, by day 3 Ironwood was in the city.

We gathered to the biggest meeting place in the city, I took a seat in the section where the heroes sat. The Wards were not too far away. The villains sat on the other side. Kaiser glared at the Butcher but no violence came. In the middle you had rogues like Parian, various mercs. You also had war capes, capes that only showed up to Endbringer fights, they had a lot of respect on both sides of the fence.

Void Cowboy took a seat, Vicky looked at him, I noticed he had some kind of tinkertech gernade launcher.

"They say Shadow Stalker has a massive crush on him."

I blinked.

"Who? There are a lot of capes here."

"Cowboy... right there are like a thousand cowboys here, Void Cowboy."

"There's no proof of that."

"Clockblocker."

I sighed.

"Clockblocker exaggerates a lot, she probably said he was all right and he took it to be more then it..."

My face grimaced in hate, I felt an arm hold me down.

"Truce."

"She's right there."

"No fighting her during this, we can send her ass to Pluto after this disaster."

I clenched my fists.

"She's not going to the Birdcage."

That earned me a shrug.

"Yeah fighting one of these gets you exempted from that, but Pluto proper still sucks balls, we will get her sooner or later."

"Yeah, we will."