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Chapter 3
-8:30 PM 04/09/2011-
Watching Victor, Rune, and Othala navigate through the building I did my best to have my drone fly as high as I could while still able to keep them in sight. After making our way past a few grunts, we eventually came to a large room with various boxes lining the walls. In the middle was a long table that Hookwolf, Stormtiger and Cricket were seated at. The head seat of the table was left open.
"It's about damn time someone else showed up, we're still waiting on Kaiser and everyone else." Immediately I began bringing my other drones closer to the warehouse so I could have them begin a search pattern for the missing Empire capes. I also started the process of calling in swarms of bugs, in some cases just making and modifying existing bugs, in case things go south. To be safe I went ahead and created a Pokemon core in the clone body I'm piloting. I really love being able to multitask.
"Hold on, did you hear something?" Almost as one Cricket, then Stormtiger turned in the general direction of my drone. Hoping it was a coincidence I tried moving it but Stormtiger raised his hand and a strong current of air trapped my drone and started dragging it towards him. Fucking asshole how did they... oh fuck, they both have enhanced hearing. Fuck it, fine he wants to play, we can play. I quickly modify the dragonfly, so it's underbelly now how a reservoir of pure hydrochloric acid. 400 degree Fahrenheit hydrochloric acid, then fire it at over 200mph.
"Ahhh!" Right into the face of Stormtiger. Obviously the fuckers control slips as he just took a massive shot of boiling acid to the face, and my drone is suddenly free. I immediately refill the reservoir and start shooting acid at Cricket, but the bitch keeps leaping out of the way at the last second with a stunning show of acrobatics. A show so stunning I want to melt the bitch's legs off and see how good she can dodge then.
After the fourth miss, I notice Othala is by Stormtiger's side and his face looks to be slowly healing. Fuck that, no way am I letting this useless cunt ruin all my hard work . Before my drone can fire another shot of acid though, a metal object blurs at my drone, killing the video signal, and my connection to the bug. Technically I could always reform it out of the two parts, but I'd rather not give away all my abilities.
"It's some kind of giant bug, I can hear more bugs outside and I think a human... watching us!" How the fuck good is Cricket's hearing? It's bad enough the scarred up bitch killed my drone with her knife, now she gotta be sending her people after me and my swarm? Well fine if the bitch wants to get put down, the bitch can get put down.
It only takes a few seconds for them to get outside with Cricket leading the charge. I really should have run. But I really just want to carve this stupid bitch apart and that gets a lot harder if I leave. Not impossible, just harder. Cricket seems to be able to tell exactly where I'm at so I stop hiding as her and Hookwolf rush into the alley. Hookwolf... it maybe be difficult to cut him up. Make him hurt. Cricket though, She's going to be easy.
I form a pair of eighteen inch tactical daggers on my thighs out of organic metal, then gather a swarm of bugs behind them. Cricket hearing this turns around, as metal blades start to come out of Hookwolf, their form taking on a wolf shape. Cricket stops, looking at the swarm, and just as Hookwolf reaches me, I call in another swarm and have it converge on me. As soon as I'm obstructed, and a fraction of a second before Hookwolf reaches me, I use teleport and appear into the swarm at the mouth of the alley, as it finishes condensing.
On the drone camera's in the area it should look like I just teleported through bug swarms. It certainly surprised Cricket as she wasn't quite fast enough to recover and dodge the eighteen inch black knife that sunk into her thigh. Lets see how fast the bitch is with a fucked up hamstring. Hookwolf having barreled through my rear swarm and into a wall, comes charging back at me faster than before. Repeating the process, but in reverse, I converge the bugs on Cricket's and my forms, shooting two globs of webbing at her feet, only one of which she dodges.
Just as before, I teleport as the last moment, letting Hookwolf smash through my swarm, and the stuck and already injured Cricket. It takes him no time to realize I'm now in the swarm at the back of the alley, and this time he starts shooting blades at me while he's charging. Blades that given this clone body's enhancements, and the suit, are easy to dodge. Unlike before, as he nears, instead of just drawing in my two swarms I also create a third further away.
Just like before, I teleport, a moment before he comes, leaving him to barrel through my swarm as I appear in the middle of my newly created one. Letting the swarm disperse, I start calling in more bugs until I can form three more swarms. Taking a quick look I see the surprised faces of Victor, Rune, and Othala as I suddenly appear fifteen feet from them, in the middle of a warehouse, then suddenly send swarms of bugs to their locations.
Othala reaches over and touches Victor, which means he's now invulnerable. At least he is for up to two minutes, barring that his wife doesn't touch him again. I can't remember the exact details of how Othala's invulnerability works. I'm not sure if I can physically move him or not, but I need to get him away from Othala so she can't touch him again. It's worth a shot. Converging a swarm on me and one behind him, I teleport again.
Throwing a haymaker right at the back of his head as hard as I could, I noticed something was wrong. I saw Victor raising his hand, palm open at the swarm I was previously in. It became all to clear, but sadly I didn't have time to stop my punch, and an instant later, Victors head was punched clean off his body. The flame in his palm extinguishing. Fuck, she gave him pyrokinesis, to fight the bug swarms instead of invulnerability... I guess they had no way of knowing I was a brute.
I quickly broke a rule I made to myself and mastered Rune and Othala's bodies before they had time to do more than widen their eyes at Victor's death. Fuck! This is not how I wanted to have my first kill. Killing a cape like this is a quick way to get me on everyone's shit list, and I highly doubt I can heal decapitation. I need a plan. I need a way to get out of this. Maybe if I was a hero, maybe if I could sell it as an accident... but I'm a completely unknown villain and this looks far too much like an execution.
…Well isn't that interesting? I shift my focus slightly to my main body as Glory Girl flies closer. I can work with this, I just need a way to get her here and for her to be pissed off. Pissed off enough to accidentally punch a guys head off. She already has a reputation as being excessively violent so no one will have trouble believing it, including herself. Plus her mom is supposedly a great lawyer, she'll get off easy. Hell I'll make sure of it if I need to.
Me on the other hand, or should I say my Skitter persona... I'm a new Villain that would have just violently executed a rival as my debut. I'd be on the fast track to either the birdcage or a kill order. Not to mention being hunted by all the Empire capes. It doesn't help that Skitter has a very non-heroic power and a dark/edgy costume. If I had done it as my Tsukushi persona, I may have taken the hit and used this as an opportunity to let PRT director Piggot press me into joining the wards.
First step is going to be cleaning up this scene, I'm going to need Victor's body to appear completely intact when Glory Girl punches his head off. I'm also going to need to keep his body from decaying so there's no discrepancy on any autopsy, then I'll need to keep piloting Rune and Othala so I can put on a good show for the camera's outside. I really don't want to get Glory Girl in any more trouble than is absolutely necessary for me to extricate myself from this problem.
As I'm using my Biokinesis to reattach Victor's head, and clean up all the blood, I also have a swarm start to gather outside, and for my drones to get in position. It's important to make it look like I teleported somewhere else, and not in here. During it all I can't help but to let out a mental sigh at the way events have gone. Tonight was supposed to be a dry run, get used to to piloting both bodies at the same time, maybe stop a mugging, and now I'm actually contemplating blowing up this warehouse to destroy evidence and lure in Glory Girl... how the fuck did my night turn out like this.
I have Rune and Othala, carry the unconscious Stormtiger out of the front door of the warehouse followed by Victor telling all the gang members to run. Teleporting back outside, towards the end of the block where I had a condensed swarm, I wait until all the gang members are out and my drones are in place. Teleporting back into the alley by the warehouse, and by the injured Cricket, I grab a recently made hockey sized black disc from my belt and chuck it through a window. It has all the internals of a bug which means I can use my powers through it, like a micro blast of fire.
"Boom!" Well I say micro, but that's only in comparison to how strong it could have been, As it was the warehouse I through it into and the ones on each side of it are now a smoking crater, that takes up the majority of the block. If I wanted it to though, that same blast could have vaporized the city. I watch the Empire members running around, the ones who can, from across the street on top of a somewhat still intact building with cricket at my feet, having teleported both of us out as I detonated the blast. I probably killed some of the unpowered gang members. All the capes got out fine though, something I was all to aware of as the massive wolf shaped swarm of metal hooks and needles jumped on the roof, roughly ten feet from me.
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With my main body, in the Tsukushi persona, I was racing towards the warehouse, trying to get there before Hookwolf finds a way to get through my clones body's armor. But I can't be so fast that I leave Glory Girl behind, she is the main star of the show after all. Which is harder than it sounds. She may have been the fastest flier around, but 120mph is just so painstakingly slow by the standards of most flying forms I can take, including how fast I fly in human form.
I'm currently piloting my clone body to just dodge Hookwolf, none of her load out can damage him if I'm honest, Well technically I do have a really cool way of using the knives that could... but that would probably kill him, and I really wanted to debut that against Lung. Of course I have several ways I could actually take Hookwolf out, but none of them are on theme for Skitter or they would flat out kill him. Or both, most of them are actually both. There's just not a whole lot of ways bug theme powers can take out a man that's mostly metal blades.
My boiling acid isn't hot enough. He can probably cut through my webs... though I'll try them to be safe. My electricity could probably work if I could reasonably produce higher amplitudes of it, there's the chance his body would work as a Faraday cage protecting his flesh core at low amps. Hand to hand is out, as while his blades probably wouldn't damage my silk armor, I definitely wouldn't be able to hit his core through them. I could produce more bomb like gadgets, but I'm on camera and that really isn't how I want Skitter to be seen fighting, too much like Bakuda.
My main body is close enough to to see Hookwolf's mass of blades in the shape of a wolf tearing after my clone, only to get several blobs of sticky web shot at into. I can see through both sets of eyes that it partially works, as the blades hit to get gummed up with web and it seems like while they're covered he can't reabsorb them. Sadly it doesn't actually stop him or his momentum and my clone body got caught in a bad position after having to turn around to fire at him. It's fine, the armor held, but I can feel a massive bruise forming where it got plowed into, and sent flying off the roof, luckily using her bee wings to catch herself and hover before hitting the ground.
"Glory Girl, I got Hookwolf, I have a power that should take him out quick, I see Victor, Rune and Othala further up on ground level, can you try and stop them from doing whatever it is they're doing?"I looked back at the angry blonde that seemed to be doing her absolute best to not punch me into next week. I probably pissed her off more by ordering her around, and she was about to comment on it, I could see her mouth opening, but before she could, I had Rune shout something from down below.
"...grrr, fine! But this isn't over!" With a growl she flew off, and I readjusted my position to look at Hookwolf's form, who had stopped to look at us. This feels like a job for Pikachu. Before transforming though I had my Skitter body fly towards me form her position in the air.
"I'm not sure what power you have that's going to take Hookwolf of all people out but god luck, I've had more than enough excitement for tonight." The voice sounded like thousands of chirping insects coming from all the swarms in the area, mixed with a deep feminine gravel coming from the actual clone. I then had her start moving away but reached out to catch her before she could.
"Hero or a Villain?" This is supposed to be the first meeting between my personas so I definitely want to get everything on camera. I have Skitter try to pull out of the wrist hold I have her in, but my hand doesn't budge an inch.
"Does it really matter? Right now I think you have a lot bigger problems than wondering how I fit into your little game of cops and robbers." She accentuated her point by giving a head nod in Hookwolf's direction, who roared angrily. Probably at being ignored. It's his own fault, he doesn't need the legs his wolf is standing on, he can probably make his hook and blade form fly if he actually tried. She also 'subtly' started gathering a swarm of insects around us.
"I'll deal with him in a second but right now, I have you fleeing the scene of a bombing, with multiple casualties, some possibly fatal. Unless you're going to claim the Empire blew themselves up, I'm going to need to hold you for questioning. I ask that you not resist, this doesn't have to be a fight if you don't make it one." I have to be seen as doing the right thing here, especially in contrast to Glory Girl. But that doesn't mean I have to let Skitter get detained. It's time to hammer in just how 'inexperienced' Tsukushi is.
"Well I'm sorry to break it to you, but you're not taking me in without a fight. Unless... mmm, you're really trying to keep me here to use that monster you're smuggling?" I had the clone's voice get slightly more feminine and higher pitched as she reached out with her other hand to give the very visible cock bulge a nice long squeeze. Of course such an 'unexpected' and sexual action was 'shocking'. I 'instinctively' jerked back from her, letting go of her wrist in the process. Sadly, she converged the growing swarm on her body and teleported away before I could 'recover'.
"Fuck, who the hell does that to someone? That's like, sexual assault. She totally just assaulted me... well at least he doesn't have hands. You better not try the same trick on me that she did, it wont work twice Villain!" Hookwolf, seemingly pissed off that I would suggest that he would try to grab my crotch to get out of a fight, took a leap off the roof straight at me with a massive growl. I'm not sure what he was angrier about, the implication that he would be scared to fight me, or that he would grab my dick. Either way, I had already transformed by the time he cleared the roof.
"Pika... Chu!" Having transformed into the cute little electric mouse Pokemon I unleashed a massive Thunderbolt on Hookwolf. Sadly for him, Pokemon moves are purely biological in nature, there's an inner energy component that in some ways operates like the Pokemon universes' version of magic. One of the many things it does, is setup certain type advantages, where particular move types are weaker or stronger against certain types of Pokemon. In Hookwolf's case, electric attacks are super effective on steel types.
"Rawr!" The Thunderbolt hit true, both thanks to the moves 100% accuracy, and my perfect aim. The massive bolts of yellow colored lightning arced out from my tiny Pikachu form and hit Hookwolf's mass of blades, freezing him in the air for an instant. I could see hooks, and blades glow from being super-heated and start to fall off, I could see the electricity arcing around and searing his flesh core underneath, as his whole form spasmed. Then he dropped.
He laid there on the broken concrete, half in the blast crater, of Skitter's fireball, seemingly unconscious. His blades and hooks were heated to a bright orange and stood out in stark contrast to his reverted blackened fleshy body, I could tell he was still alive with my Biokinesis but it would be a long recovery for him. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving Nazi. I was about to fly away when the worst thing happened for Hookwolf. His body started reabsorbing the super heated metal of his hooks and blades to regenerate it.
"Aghh!" He started screaming out in pain as hot metal was being absorbed into his body, searing him from the inside. This would probably kill him. Part of me seriously wanted it to. No actually all of me did, but only part of me wanted to be the public reason for it to have happened. After a brief hesitation, I transformed into Blissey once more and hit him with a quick Heal Pulse. It'll keep him alive, though in horrible shape given the sheer amount of damage his body has taken inside and out.
Glory Girl POV
I don't know who this amazonian bitch thinks she is trying to ruin my reputation, calling me a Nazi, saying I was a part of the Empire. Me, secretly in the fucking Empire! And then after this bitch found some way to fly faster than me, she had the nerve to order me around like I'm some kind of fucking rookie! Me of all people! I was just about to tell the bitch exactly where she could stick her orders when Rune shouted out about how they had to leave quick. Looking down, I saw Rune, Othala, Victor, and an injured Stormtiger making their way away from me.
"...grrr, fine! But this isn't over!" Honestly I'm so mad I can barely even talk straight. I'm one of the strongest capes in the Bay and this bitch is acting like I'm a misbehaving child. I hope she enjoys being Shish kebab'd by Hookwolf. Maybe if she's lucky I'll even save her before she dies. Maybe. In the meantime I have three people who just volunteered to be my personal punching bag.
Targeting the quartet of Empire capes I swooped down and nose dived for the pavement right in front of them. Picking up speed when most lesser capes would be slowing down, I hit the road with enough force to shatter it, sending chunks flying away. I landed with one knee and foot touching the ground, left arm extended, classic superhero landing. Fuck I bet that looked awesome. I stayed in that landing position for a few moments cranking up my fear aura to let it sink in just how fucked these Nazi's were.
I practiced that landing for weeks to get it just right, god I wish there was a camera around to capture how epic that looked.
"You should just give up now, you know you can't get away, and I have a particular urge to punch out a few Nazi's today." I leveled each of them with my best steely gaze and I could see it was really getting to Rune and Othala. Instead of answering me Othala reached over to touch Victor. So that's how they want to play it huh? Fine then, I can wait Othala's power out and focus on taking out the other two anyway. Then Victor crossed the line. He actually had the nerve to turn his head and start trying to talk to Othala while I was right here!
"Why did yo-" Whatever the fuck the freak was going to say was cut off by my fist slamming full force into his face. It wouldn't do anything, he wouldn't even budge but it would teach him not to look away from me when we're fighting!
"Squelch!" What... where is head? What the... why is there so much blood how did... what... fuck! No, he was invincible there's no way I could have... I saw Othala touch him! She gave him invincibility just like every other time we fought, so why is his head gone, why is there so much blood? Oh god, did I...
"Fuckity Fuck Fuck!" What the fuck am I going to do? Ames! She can fix this I just need to get her here and... I paused with my phone out, halfway through dialing her number, what can she even do about a head splattered into pulp? I-I don't think you can heal that!
"Glory Girl, what the fuck did you do?" I turned away from the collapsed body of Victor, to see that new Asian cape staring down at me with wide panicked eyes. Fuck of all the people to see this it had to be her. Think Vicky, what can I do, I have to do something... I can explain this, it wasn't my fault!
"I don't know what happened! Othala gave him invincibility I saw it, then he turned and I punched him it- it was just gone! I didn't, Othala tell he-" I looked around, looked at where Othala and Rune just were, where I know I just saw them, only to find the collapsed body of Stormtiger, and the... decapitated body of Victor. Aren't they like married or dating or something? Why would she leave him, she wouldn't, I know I saw her! She was there so where did-
"I'm sorry Glory Girl, I'm sure something weird happened, and I'm sure the PRT will be able to make sense of what happened but, right now all I see is a Man that had his head smashed to mush and your fist covered in brain, blood, and skull fragments. I'm going to have to ask you to surrender yourself to my custody until the PRT gets here okay?" Surrender? Custody? Is she trying to... Is this Villain trying to arrest me! Me! She has the... Errr that's it! This is all this stupid bitch's fault! She should be the one laying on the round with her head gone!
"Victoria, please I know you don't like Asian people but don't let your racism make this situation worse than it needs to be. I don't know what kind of internal dispute you had with your fellow Naz-"
"Die!" This stupid bitch needs to shut up now! Blaming me when this all her fault! If she hadn't pissed me off so much, I wouldn't have hit victor so hard in the first place anyway! I rush at her, position where the tall Amazonian whore is looking down on me, and cock my fist back to wipe that stupid fake look of concern off her face and-
"ugh." ...hurt's so bad. How, does it... I'm, I'm inv- I can't...I need air, why can't I... Looking down through blurry eyes I see a long leg buried in my stomach, pain radiating out, blackness closing in.
"Just calm down, Glory Girl, I don't blame you for being a crazy homicidal racist. I blame your parents."...I, fuckin- bitch.
Taylor(Tsukushi) POV
I looked down and the collapsed, blacked out form of Glory Girl wondering if I maybe went a little overboard. I guess without her telekinetic barrier, she couldn't handle two Double Kicks directly to her diaphragm. Especially since that's four separate kicks, though only three hit her after the first one broke her barrier. Mmm in hindsight, I guess for a normal human taking three kicks of that strength in a fraction of a second is a bit much. And without her barrier, Victoria Dallon's durability is very much at the same level as an ordinary teenage girl.
Regardless, she served her purpose better than I could have expected, even if she needed a bit of extra prodding at the end. And I have it all captured in surprisingly high definition, as my Skitter body is currently reviewing on her tablet several blocks from here. Well time to finish up the role of hero and actually call this in. Part of me wants to call 911 just for the lolz and to keep the previous narrative going but, that might not be taken too well. They might even try to frame it as purposefully hindering an investigation.
"PRT, what's your emergency?" This time it was a man that answered the phone and childishly I was a bit disappointed. Still, even if he isn't the best audience for my particular brand of... awesomeness, there's still all the people that will end up watching this on PHO.
"Yes hello, this is the independent hero Tsukushi, I'm sure you've heard of me. Anyways I kinda have a situation here. You see I have a passed out Stormtiger, decapitated Victor, Severely charred Hookwolf, and an unconscious Glory Girl in custody but no where to put them, I was hoping you could help me out with that." Cricket's also here on a rooftop, but technically Tsukushi doesn't know that.
"...I, What is Glory Girl's condition and where is you location?" Vista and Gallant finally arrived in a tube of warped space and looked out at the carnage in shock. Upon spotting her at my feet Gallant rushed over and Vista looked at me in confusion. Raising up one finger in the universal sign of hold on, I focused back on the operator.
"I'm sure you noticed the massive fireball that rocked the city, we're in the crater... I actually hear some sirens approaching. As for the prisoner, she's fine. I had to restrain her when she resisted my citizen's arrest. She should be fine after she sleeps it off though." Gallant's head whipped up at me when I said that and he started to rise.
"What did you-"
"I'm sorry Tsukushi, did you say you've taken Glory Girl as a prisoner?" I had to raise my finger again to cut Gallant off when the operator started speaking. I was surprised it worked but he is an overly well mannered person I guess.
"Yeah I mean, I figured since decapitating people is illegal and everything, I should probably hold her for the PRT but sadly she's racist and took offense to me being Asian so I had to subdue her. A couple of your Wards actually showed up so you can get whatever else you need from them, there's still a few Nazis trying to escape and someone should probably make sure the ones that got blown up aren't dying." I toss the phone to Vista who's just staring at me in shock, or maybe she's wondering where I got the second phone from after she stole my last one?
True to my word I did actually take off and and round up the seventeen Empire grunts that were actively trying to escape from the scene of the bombing. It didn't take long to knock them all unconscious with a Quick Attack each. I checked on a the dozen or so gang bangers that were lying in the ruble, pulled a few out real quick, but very pointedly didn't heal any. Four died because I didn't, but no one can claim I assaulted them with a parahuman power and that's what's really important.
Eventually the sirens drew closer and several ambulances and PRT vans could be seen to stop about five blocks down the street from the edge of the crater. At first I wondered what was going on, why they weren't helping then I heard Armsmaster's motorcycle. Followed not longer after by another. Likely Miss Militia. Ah, right. Waiting to see if there's an active parahuman threat before they send in the normies. Eventually they both arrived, pulling up to the edge of the crater where I was waiting. Armsmaster got off first, his dark blue and silver armor gleaming as he pointed his halberd vaguely in my direction.
"You, are you responsible for this?" Well hello to you too, asshole. I ignored him briefly to look at Miss Militia dressed in her fitted army fatigues and an American flag bandanna around her mouth. A green swirl of energy is current shifting into the for of a pistol at her side, her hand vaguely near it.
"I'm a new hero Tsukushi, I'm sure you've heard of me. I was just on the phone with the PRT, they should have mentioned me, uh Vista is back there talking with them now." I'll have to be careful with him, he's an asshole with a truth detecting program that is pretty accurate if memory serves correctly. I have no idea if I can beat it, but I'm using my power to regulate my heartbeat, body temperature, posture and micro expressions so I'm hopeful.
"...we got report of that. You claim Glory Girl killed someone, is that correct?" There was a long pause before he spoke and when he did, it was with a grimace. I nodded at him and both he and Miss Militia started slowly walking closer almost as if they were worried I would attack them.
"She claims it's Victor, and that it was an accident. Says that Othala made him invincible. Then seemed shocked when she looked around and realized Othala wasn't there. Your wards Gallant and Vista are with her, I was busy apprehending the escaping Empire members and pulling the others out of rubble." I saw Miss Militia's head twitch. Like an aborted attempt to look at Armsmaster but she stopped herself. The silence stretched as both stared at me.
"We'll need you stay behind to give a full accounting of everything that happened since you arrived. For now please stay where you are." Somewhat confused at the odd behavior, I did as asked, and watched as each made their way slowly around me, never taking their eyes off me, even to the point of walking sideways, and then backwards. I turned around to watch them as they arrived at Gallant and Vista, standing over the downed forms of Glory Girl, Victor and Stormtiger.
Once there they began speaking to them, never taking their eyes off me, I think I heard them say something about a password and saw Miss Militia's hand was firmly on her gun until they answered. It didn't take long for one of them, Miss Militia, to come back over to me. I wonder if they chose her because Armsmaster needs to stay behind and further question the wards, or if they realized he's horrible with people and don't want to scare a potential recruit off.
"I'd like to thank you for helping out tonight, Tsukushi. It's nice to know we have a new hero in town. If you don't mind I'll just get a quick rundown of what happened from your end and then if it's not too much trouble, we'll have you come in for a full debrief once emergency services have had a chance to do their jobs. Sometime tomorrow maybe?" Perfect. This should get me in to see Director Piggot tomorrow during the Lung fight.
"That sounds fine, I'm busy earlier in the day but I can make time towards evening. As for what happened here, well Glory Girl, Vista, Gallant and I heard a huge explosion. We raced over here, Glory Girl and myself arriving first. I saw Hookwolf, fighting some unknown cape, looked Villain. I told Glory Girl I could handle Hookwolf, and to go after Victor, Rune, and Othala, who we could see were escaping." Miss Militia wasn't taking notes but from what I remember she has an eidetic memory due to her powers so I guess she doesn't need to take notes. Personally I'd still make her if I was her boss.
"The unknown cape, got away and Hookwolf charged me. I used my changer power to turn into a form that could electrocute him because he's made of metal. I went after Glory Girl and found her standing over a collapsed Stormtiger and decapitated Victor. She claimed that Othala gave him invincibility and that he shouldn't have died. After seeing that Othala wasn't in fact present, she went into a panicked state. I tried to talk her down assuring her that the PRT would be able to sort everything out and that I believed it was a misunderstanding." She continued nodding along to my recount of events, I guess wanting me to get everything out in my own words?
"When I informed her that I would have to detain her until authorities arrived to investigate Victor's death. She became enraged and screamed at me to die, then charged me to attack. When she got close enough, I used my superior speed and reach to land several kicks on her diaphragm, taking her breath away, and triggering the vasovagal response to knock her unconscious. I considered instead targeting her carotid but I was worried that with how thin her neck is, the force I would need to break through her barrier could have caused a serious injury if not death."
"And how exactly did you know that her durability was due to a, barrier you said? Right, was due to a barrier?" Her eyes narrowed at me and she got a bit tense at the question, Maybe she thinks I'll react negatively? Or that I'll lie and they'll have to detain me? I mean she should have covered this with her Wards already.
"Well I encountered her earlier. She accosted me for being Asian. At one point she became so enraged by my being Asian that she tried to attack me. I of course responded by protecting myself. I punched her in the face and was surprised to find out that Glory Girl's famed invulnerability wasn't what it was cracked up to be. Her barrier shattered and her body was sent rocketing to the ground, luckily for her Vista was able to use her powers to stop her from being seriously injured."
"Honestly I would have assumed your Wards would have told you this, they were there almost the whole time. I even had to contact the 911 emergency line at one point, as Glory Girl continued to attack me, while your Wards stood by and watched. I was considering lodging a formal complaint, as they seemed far more interested in supporting Glory Girl's racist attack against me than stopping her. Vista even stole my cell phone while I was trying to get emergency intervention from the police." Miss Militia paused for a long moment, before taking a deep breath and then staring at me hard.
"Miss, I'd like to assure you the PRT takes any and all reports of discrimination very serious. I can promise you there will be a thorough investigation in to the behavior and actions of our Wards, I'm sure it's something you can discuss in further detail tomorrow." Eh, maybe I shouldn't have mentioned lodging a formal complaint? I wasn't actually trying to get Vista in trouble. I could careless about Gallant. He just... he always felt like some goody goody, that people were obsessed with for some reason I couldn't begin to fathom. On top of that he was a liar and hypocrite, having been someone who bought his powers from Cauldron instead of earning them in a Trigger event.
"I'll do that, though I would like to point out that I think Vista's actions were influenced by the demeanor of Gallant. He seemed to be completely on Glory Girl's side. Honestly you may want to look into why your Ward has such a close relationship with an openly racist cape like Glory Girl. I mean after what happened with Bastion recently being exposed as a racist, it's making me wonder if the PRT itself is secretly in support of those beliefs. It would certainly explain why there hasn't been a bigger response to the Empire in the nearly two decades they've existed."
Honestly, the reason nothings happened to the Empire is strictly because they happen to be in Brockton Bay. A city that Cauldron is using in some bizarre and flawed experiment, to see how Parahuman Feudalism would work. It's why murderous capes like Hookwolf, Lung, and Oni Lee don't have kill orders on them. Cauldron doesn't want outside mercenary capes coming into their sandbox and kicking down their sand castles. The same Cauldron that is partially led by the head of the PRT.
"I- Those are concerns that are probably best brought up tomorrow. If there's nothing else, we need to get emergency services on scene. I would ask that you return to your patrol while we get to work here, there's no point in leaving the city undefended from any villains that might try to take advantage of the situation right?" Nodding at the reasonable logic, I decided to start flying straight up, and then booked a hard left to ostensibly patrol back over the docks area.
Back in my Skitter body though, I was watching the scene with my remaining drones. I saw as Miss Militia kept her eyes on the flying form of Tsukushi for as long as she could until it was finally out of sight. After a long pregnant pause, she released an explosive sigh of relief and made her way back to Armsmaster, the Wards, and the downed Nazi's.
"Before you take another step, state this week's counter challenge password." Armsmaster leveled his halberd at her when she got within 15 feet of the group. Master/Stranger protocols? Why would they... wait do they think I'm a master? How would they even know? I didn't do anything that would...
"Blackfoot four-eight-three. I'm me." That's not the password the Wards gave earlier, I guess that's what counter challenge means? Maybe if that week's normal password has already been used? Still why would they... I guess, they do know I'm a changer, and the protocols for dealing with a high level changer are probably pretty similar to Master/Stranger protocols.
"Good, If she's left the area then it's safe to bring in the troops. Sadly, correct passwords or not, all of us will be in Master/Stranger protocols once we get back to HQ tonight. Prepare yourselves." Armsmaster made to call in on his radio, and I was left wondering what the fuck I could have done to let them know I was a master. Maybe they noticed, that someone very briefly could have mastered the whole city, when I first connect to my clone body and expanded range.
But I didn't actually do it. Even if I did, there should be nothing that links me specifically to being a master. The only thing I can even begin to think of that happened tonight is maybe they think I somehow mastered Glory Girl into being angrier, and that's why she was attacking everyone? But honestly that's a stretch. The only other thing is from when I first debuted... maybe, and I do mean maybe Jigglypuff's sleep move could be considered a master effect? Maybe... to me it's more of a shaker effect but I guess if you spin it the right way, or wrong way...
-11:00 PM 04/09/2011-
I had Tsukushi do a rather visible patrol all over the city, mostly doing flyby's, only stopping twice to interrupt a couple of muggings in the docks, before heading home for the night. Skitter stayed with her drones as they filmed the entire rescue efforts, but eventually all the empire members were either taken to jail, the hospital, or the morgue. Nothing particularly interesting was said, it seems the adults didn't want to risk giving information to a potential mole.
I then piloted Rune and Othala from where I had them hiding, to my house, using my Skitter clone to get them settled in the basement. I generated a smooth white wall, blocking off the alcove towards the back and put both bodies inside, asleep. I'll use my powers to maintain them and keep them asleep until I can figure out what the fuck I'm supposed to do with them. When I eventually release the video of Victors death, and Kaiser sees what I had Rune and Othala do, they'll likely be hunted down, maybe even killed.
Still I was able to end my night before midnight, and after taking a nice long shower I went back to my girlfriend's house. That's still so fucking weird to think about. On one hand I like finally having a girlfriend... but honestly I just want someone I can keep fucking. God is sex amazing. I mean logically I knew it would be, jacking off is great so sex had to be just as good, if not better but... holy fuck nothing could have prepared me for just how good it actually was.
I haven't really stopped thinking about putting my dick back in her since I left her apartment, stray thoughts of using my powers to just maintain our bodies while we spend every waking moment for the rest of eternity fucking, kept trying to distract me. I'm pretty sure I popped a boner more than once. After teleporting into her apartment, I probably should have knocked, I was pleasantly surprised to find her bent over in the kitchen, checking something in the oven.
The smell of fresh cookies however was ignored as my mind flared in a familiar way. It's done it multiple times so far, every time I was in the presence of Parahuman. I've ignored it every time because I've always known the parahuman in question was there, and what their power was. This time however... there's a parahuman right in front of me, with the power... Reinforcement. Right where Alejandra is bent over, in the kitchen.
Reaching out with my powers I scan her biology for confirmation... to find a fully matured Gemma. She had a Corona Pollentia before, I saw it while we were fucking... but she didn't have a developed Gemma. She could have triggered. It's rare for it to happen to adults but not impossible. Only, there's no way someone can go through something traumatic enough to trigger them and then turn around and be happily backing cookies within hours, and it couldn't have been many hours because she wasn't a parahuman when I left earlier. There's really only one explanation, regardless of how unbelievable it seems.
"If I'm going to get welcomed back with fresh cookies and your tight ass, I'll have to leave more often." She jerked with the tray in her hands, almost sending the cookies flying but I used Telekinesis to catch it and send it over to the counter. She straightened up, turning around and looking at me with wide eyes.
"When did yo-" I cut her off by taking a step forward and pulling her into a kiss. I teleported us into her bedroom, then had my Skitter clone use Kecleon's invisibility to teleport into her kitchen and start searching her apartment for any listen devices or cameras, closing and turning off her oven as well. I immediately dematerialized my clothes when we arrived in her bedroom, and started tearing hers off as well. In less than a second I had her naked and confused, pulling away from me. She's not wearing a wire at least.
"Katelyn, wha-"
"Sorry if I was a little rough, I've just been thinking about you ever since I left... then I come here and your all bent over waving that sexy ass at me, I need you." To emphasize my point I grab my now fully erect cock and wave it at her. In familiar territory, her confusion is replaced by a sexy smirk and she steps back towards me, grabbing my cock and giving it slow gentle tugs.
"You're such a bad girl aren't you slut? Out there patrolling for crime with this big fat cock on display. Tell me, did you stop any bad guys or were you to busy getting groped and-" For some reason, everything she's saying just feels hollow. Like it's all an act. Not wanting to have to think about that any more, I spun her around and pushed her faced down on the bed. I was about to just shove right in, but remembering my size, I took a second to make her pussy start lubricating. It was bone dry.
"Whoa, someones feeli-" I didn't let her finish. I don't care what she has to say at this point. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's a coincidence that she took a vial from Cauldron, in the few hours I was gone. Maybe she's secretly super rich and doesn't actually owe them any favors, like everyone else. Maybe... but I can't ignore the sinking feeling in my stomach or pretend like my presence isn't the single most likely reason for her to have dealings with Cauldron.
"Fuuucckk!" I sped up inside her, not giving her the chance to recover and try to talk. She isn't telling me to stop so it's fine. If she didn't want me to fuck her she would say something. Unless... She has to let me fuck her. What could Cauldron possibly want... to create powerful second generation capes to possibly take out the Entity? Fuck! They somehow found a way to make something as amazing as sex, stop feeling as good. I can't just ignore it. Raising, a fully inviolable dome over Alejandra's bed, I slowed down inside of her.
"What deal did you make with Cauldron?" I probably could have been more tactful about that. I shouldn't have just blurted it out, but I was hoping, probably foolishly, that she would have a perfectly good explanation, and I could just go back to enjoying how amazing her pussy felt. She turned her head to look back at me, and I could see the shock. That's fine. They're a secret organization, it would be shocking that I knew about them. It was what was under the shock that told me everything I needed to know, plain as day I could see her trying very hard to not look guilty.
"H-How, did you know about the- I mean what are you-"
"I'm not stupid. I know who Cauldron is Alejandra. I know you became a parahuman in the last few hours. I can sense them. I even know what your power does, Reinforcement. I can tell you weren't a natural, trigger, you drunk one of Cauldron's vials. I know it burned through you, felt like it was melting through your throat and stomach, I can feel the pain it caused you Alejandra. I know. What I don't know is what Cauldron could possibly want from you, besides me." Most of that was bullshit guess work based on what I remember from the Worm story, but it seems accurate given how scared she's looking.
To stop her from getting too afraid, I kept giving her a steady dicking, as she grew more and more panicked at my words. I kept my thrust even trying to concentrate on how good it feels and ignore that she's probably some Cauldron spy, trying to steal my cum or assassinate me or some other ridiculous plan that Cauldron thought up that's going to somehow, someway, lead to Scion dying.
"I-I'm sorry I didn't know! I, I was just told where to be and... I had already told them I met you before we actually... before we had sex. Please you have to believe me, if I didn't tell them they would have just killed me." I, I think I believe her. I doubt if she tried to back out they would have just let her go Scott free. The real question is how the fuck they knew about me to begin with? I pulled out of Alejandra for a second and flipped her over so we could more easily look at each other face to face, before sinking back in.
"Calm down, I believe you and I'm mostly not mad. If I was, we would be having a very different conversation, and you would be enjoying this far less. Now you're going to tell me everything, every single detail you can remember from the moment you first were contacted by Cauldron." I am mad. Mostly at myself for letting my guard down. It's not like she actually owes me anything, doesn't mean it doesn't suck to find out the person that took your virginity was just using you for power though.
I shunted off all the building emotions into my swarm. I don't have time for a pity party. I'm pussy deep in a tight pussy, am about to get some important information, and most importantly I need to plan. Not to protect myself from Cauldron or anything, we're on the same side and even if we weren't they couldn't hope to take me if I actually tried. No I need to find a way to use this, and I mean beyond guiltily Alejandra into on call pussy.
-12:15 AM 04/11/2011-
I headed out just before midnight on Sunday. I had a newly made clone body, this time of my Tsukushi persona, currently in the PRT HQ. I wanted to be the one to fight Lung in person, not through a piloted body. My Taylor clone was currently sleeping, having spent the day piloting it through bonding with kinda dad. It was sweet. Made me start considering the best ways to try and bring kinda mom back. I spent most of my day in this body, scheming with Alejandra, and enjoying just how wonderful her cunt is. Until tomorrow morning we're playing the happy couple, after that though... we'll see.
Forcibly putting all that extra shit out of my mind, I fly through the docks heading towards the boardwalk area. About five blocks away I saw a two story building that guys dressed in green and red, ABB colors, were pouring out of. It's time. It's finally time. Getting my drones in position, I waited until Lung came out of the building. He was about to give a speech. It was probably going to be a good speech. I didn't particularly care to hear it.
Gathering my swarms into the area I covered myself then I had a large mass gather in front of him then teleported into it. I ignored the shouts of his men at the mass of bugs and quickly dissipated my swarm, revealing me in all my awesome glory. I took him in and had to fight down the instinctual blush I could feel building. Fuck he's hot. Well his body is, his face is pretty well hidden by a mask, but the rest... I didn't really know I liked guys until I saw his shirtless muscular body, tan skin flowing with artful dragon tattoos.
"Who the fuck are you supposed to be?" Fuck his voice is sexy... why did he have to be such a murderous cunt? I ignored all the weapons his men were pointing at me, none of them could hope to hurt me. I focused all my attention on the slowly growing hunk with the knee weakening voice.
"You know it actually sucks that you're so hot. When I took the contract to take you out tonight, I really didn't think you'd be so... appetizing. I would have charged more... but where are my manners, the names Skitter. I'll be your executioner tonight." I gave him an exaggerated bow. It's at times like this that I'm glad the padding over my hips and chest gives me a far more feminine form than my body naturally has. I'd hate for him to mistake me for a guy right now.
"Execut- you actually think... Whoever takes this bitch out gets to use her cunt first!" With that things sprang into action. I immediately ducked down from the incoming gunfire and rolled out of the way. Standing up in front of the closest goon, I grabbed his AK, before he could fire and wrenched it out of his grip. With a quick spin I was behind him, his AK now in my hands and pressed across his throat. Just in time for his fellow goons to have re-aimed and start filling his body with a hail of lead.
Gathering a swarm on the other side of the shooters, I converged another on me and quickly teleported. Over the sound of the AK's and pistols barking, no one noticed my arrival. I sneaked behind the closest goon and tapped him on the shoulder. Once her turned around, eyes wide and about to shout, I fired hundreds of micro bursts of boiling acid from my wrist mounted reservoir, his scream only lasting a second as the acid burned down his throat.
It was long enough for the others to hear and begin turning in our direction, but by the time they did, I had already gathered my swarms and teleported to the far end of the shooters. Giving them a second to take in the body of their former gang member, I gathered swarms for my next teleport and raised my arm, palm up.
"I believe you're looking for me?" There was a pregnant pause as it took them a second to register my voice. As they were turning I shot out a web line at one of the farthest gang members, jerking him to me just as they opened fire again. I teleported away as the bullets started impacting his body, this time reappearing slightly behind Lung, who immediately turned to me. Well someones been ramping up.
"Honestly, it's like no one ever taught them gun safety. You really shou-"
"Enough!" It came out more like a roar as the now nearly nine foot figure, covered in slowly growing metal scales launched a wave of fire at me. Sadly I'm pretty fucking fire proof in this costume so...
"You're right, it was really rude of me to focus on the other boys and leaving you to get all big and hard by yourself just watching. Don't worry I'm here now, you'll be erupting and limp soon enough." I had my swarms converge on the goons biting and sting every inch of available skin as I stared the slightly faster growing Lung down. Someone doesn't like being teased.
"Kill. You. Cock. Sucker!" Lung was clearly having trouble talking between his heavily accented voice, and his transformation. Now nearing ten feet. Mmm he's still fucking sexy though. I jumped back and to the side as a massive clawed hand took a swing at me, and rolled until I was perpendicular to him.
"Cocksucker huh? Was that an offer? You know... I normally do- ooh close one. I normally don't do this but if you... if your dick is big enough, I might... nice try, I might be convinced to cancel my contract and spend my night in your bed instead."It was hard to get my taunt out as I had to constantly dodge swipes of claws and tail, flipping and rolling in between every few words. If anything, my offer seems to have made the eleven foot winged dragon even angrier. Such a waste, I might have even done it too.
"Someone's not confident in their dick size, such a shame but I guess you can't help having a little di-"
"EYE!" ...die? Maybe? I teleported out of the way of a massive wave of flame, that may or may not have blasted into his downed gang members, burning them alive. Honestly this is the second person that's screamed at me to die with every fiber of their being in the last 48 hours. Is it something I did? I might start developing a complex.
"Yes! Eye! I have two of them! And they can both clearly see how little your dick is." While taunting him, I was preparing the surprise I worked up for him this afternoon. I took out the special wrist bands from my hip. Each one midnight black, three inches wide, and one inch thick. I opened them as he was charging at me, ignoring the wave of fire he sent at me. When he was ten feet away, I used my perfect aim to throw them both at the same time, each hitting and locking firmly around his wrists.
He didn't even slow down. With a mental command I triggered the web shooting mechanism on each and watched as a four inch metal looking bolt was fired out from the surface of both. They both self corrected in the air and buried into the fourth floor of the buildings on either side of us. This made Lung finally stop, less than a foot from me.
"Well look what I caught." Attached to each bolt, was an inch thick rope of silk. A special blend I worked up this afternoon, that's 3x the strength of Darwin's bark spider silk. The other end of the silk ropes were attached to the cuffs on Lung's wrist. From the bolts in the wall, a sticky web bomb deployed firmly sticking them in place. I watched as he struggled trying to pull himself free, His body now over thirteen feet in height, barely resembling a human anymore.
"You know if you promise to be a good b-" I was cut off by a massive impact on my stomach and sent flying. I deployed my bee wings to catch myself after having flew twenty or so feet. Fuck that hurt! Mmm... nothings broken but that would leave a bruise if I didn't regenerate. Already the pain has faded, and I've righted myself in the air. Looking over I see Lung covered in fire, and lowering his tail. So that's what hit me.
"You can stop trying, you're nowhere near strong enough to pull free, and all my equipment is fire proof, I bought it specially or you. It cost an arm and leg but the pay for this job will more than cover it. Now be a good boy and hold still while you die." Taking out my modified knives, each with blades thirteen inches long, five inch handles, I use my Force field power. Already my force field's edge is sharper than any tinker made blade, which includes Armsmaster's nanothorn blades. Taking it a step further though, I create hundreds of thousands of microscopic silver triangle shaped force fields on the edge of my knives, and then move them around the edge like a saw blade.
It took making a special buffer area in the hilt and handle of the tactical daggers so the force fields could spin around like a chain. Then adding a couple of buttons. One on the hilt of each. The other on the pommel. The one on the hilt turns on a small organic noisemaker that makes a whirling sound. The one on the pommel is for show. The effect in person and on camera?
Two pitched black knives coming to life with the press of a button. The black edges now a glowing sliver and both sounding like mini chainsaws. I slowly walked to a roaring, bound Lung, both knives held out and visible at my sides. When I was just before the reach of his tail, I dashed in, burying the daggers up to the hilt in the massive beast's stomach. They met no resistance from his steel scales.
"Well, I wish I could say it's been fun... but I have a thing against lying to the people I kill." I shifted my grip and pressed the buttons on each pommel, at the same time I fired two micro bursts of the conceptual element entropy into the wounds in Lung's stomach.
"Raaawwwwr..." Lung let out his loudest roar yet as the entropy burned through him creating withering wounds even his regeneration couldn't heal. The roar faded off as he rapidly reverted to normal size, losing his dragon elements and slipping from the cuffs. As he fell to the floor I snatched out both of my daggers and 'shut' them off. Looking at his face down body I took one last parting shot at him.
"Here lies the hero of Kyushu, AKA Leviathan's favorite punching bag. What a joke. I'm almost pissed off, I had to pay so much for weapons that would take out someone that turned out to be so weak. I hope you aren't to far gone that you can't hear me Lung, I want you to know as per my contract you're going to die a slow painful death. It's not my style but you really pissed someone off. Nothing short of Panacea could even hope to heal you at this point so you're well and truly fucked." Without waiting to see if he would or even could respond, I took my cuffs, detaching the silk ropes, and teleported away in a converging swarm.
He'll live. While the entropy wounds can kill him, it would take a couple of days. He should have plenty of time to have Panacea heal him. I heard Armsmaster's motorcycle approaching as I teleported away so I wouldn't be surprised if Panacea was called in tonight. All she would have to do is destroy the entropy spreading flesh and use other bio-matter to rebuild the damaged tissue. I can't wait to see how the videos are going to play out on PHO. Either way, Skitter's reputation and persona will be well and truly established. If only things were going as well for Tsukushi.
-10:00 AM 04/11/2011-
Contessa POV
It was nearly paralyzing. The prospect of walking into the apartment. The apartment that will go fuzzy, like gray fog descending on my mind. Either Scion, is bout to show up, or this Tsukushi is. The asset said she had important information. So the question is, is this a trap or just bad timing? The indecision racked me. The only path to finding my answer has one single step. Open the door. After that everything is blank.
It's hard to describe the deep paralyzing fear at not knowing, something I've only felt with the enemies of all humanity. So who then is this Tsukushi, to make me feel the same? Besides Eidolon of course, but even then I can model him somewhat accurately. This new cape, if it is a cape... Is far to much like an entity in it's ability to blind me.
But like the Entities, I can still path around them. Something I've been doing extensively since the moment the boy I was watching suddenly went blank when he should have triggered. Finding out the cause was seemingly a young hero... a cape, terrified me in someways, gave a deep sense of hope in others. This being is either like an Entity, or triggered with a level of power potentially higher than Eidolon.
Every way I look at it, every winding path I try to see down all leads to opening this door and walking into whatever is to come, blind. So many other paths, paths that were well on the way, have suddenly gone blank at various points down the line. New options spring up at near constant, but all lead to this door. I've taken bigger leaps of faith before, when it comes to blank spots in my power, though usually it was with the Doctor right their by my side.
Opening the door, It was unlocked and the path did not say to knock, I walked into the same apartment as before, when the asset made the choice to embrace opportunity and I gleamed the faintest beginnings of what this Tsukushi being was about. Walking further in, there was no path forward through my powers and I knew I was no longer alone. A dome of darkness appeared around me cutting off all sound, sight, and smell. I was well and truly blind.
"I've been told you had questions for me?" Suddenly there was light and I found that I was in a dimly lit black dome, a tall and imposing woman across from me. The pictures didn't do her justice and I suppressed the instinctual fear that rose up at her towering form. Regaining composure, I tried to forage on through my blindness.
"Yes, I'-"
"Fortuna. Or as you prefer, Contessa. Parahuman, partially responsible for the death like state of the entity known as Eden. The Thinker Entity. Bodyguard of the Doctor, or doctor mother if you would prefer. Gifted with the ability Path to Victory, able to path out the optimal route to any goal. You've spent the vast majority of your life being a leading member of the secret organization Cauldron. Kidnapping and experimenting on humans in an effort to someday defend the world from the Warrior Entity, whose avatar was mistakenly named Scion."
"I'm fully aware of who you are Contessa. What I don't know, what you will tell me, is why my affairs are of interest to you." She knows. Everything. Secrets no one knows. How could she... what is she, no thinker can just simply know all your secrets within a moment of meeting you... that's...
"I- That is, you're a bli"
"A blind spot to your Path to Victory power, yes I know. As is the Remaining Entity on this planet Zion. Along with the puppets and their master. If you're interest in me, the reason you've inserted yourself and the woman in my life, is to sate some inane curiosity of yours..." She didn't need to finish. The truth of what would happen is written plain on her face. The things she knows... things I don't know, no one knows...
"It's not! I was hoping that, that someone with a similar ability to Sci- Zion could be of help in the fight against him, you clearly have knowledge that we've been unable to uncover or keep hidden in all the years th-"
"I have my own plans for the would be destroyer and his ilk. And no, those plans do not concern you." Does that mean she plans on killing him? Using him? Allying with him? I can't path anything... nothing! This is worst than with the Entity, I can't... I can't even feel my power anymore... I've never felt so naked so... I need to get her to stop doing whatever it is she's doing I, need...
"I, you seem to have me at a disadvantage. You seem to know all about what I want, but I don't know a thing about what you do. It's something I've been wondering about since I walked through the door." Nothing happened. No door. No negative response. Nothing. She's can block Doormaker. I need to buy time, I need to find a way out, I need to get out.
"From you and your little organization, nothing. I can read minds for myself, I can make doors any place I need... though I supposed there may be something." She knows what I was trying to do. She knows everything. I can't escape but she said there may be something she wants from us, I can work with that, we can bargain.
"I'm sure we ca-"
"I have a proposition for you Fortuna of Cauldron. If you accept, you'll be free to go. I may even be willing to assist your little group's blind flailings." The way she said that name, it was like there was a power to it, a finality. A name and a title, the truth of my very being all rolled into one. I could feel no matter what I called myself, what others called me, I was Fortuna of Cauldron. And it terrified me. Almost as much as the part she's leaving out. What happens if I say no.
"And if I-"
"If you say no Fortuna of Cauldron, nothing will happen to you. Instead we will both leave this place and I will visit your base, on every continent it's on. I will introduce your Doormaker to dimensions he's never even glimpsed, and will never return from. I will show your Clairvoyant what it truly means to peer into the depths of the human mind, a soul deep journey he is ill equipped to escape from. I will pluck every last digit out of the mind of your Number Man until the very concept of them is an impossibility to him."
"Your dear Doctor, I will leave her to watch as her children are laid to waste, calling out for her, as she's unable to-"
"I understand. Whatever it is, I accept. You have a deal." Whatever this thing is, because it can't be a parahuman, can't be anything approaching human, it's clearly a monster. I know she has the power to do what she claims. It's a bone deep feeling, a certainty I can feel with every fiber of my being. I believe every word she uttered.
AN: OK so clearly there's a lot more going on with the last scene, that will be revealed from the MC's perspective in the next chapter, along with what happened at the PRT HQ. I was trying to find a good way to show her different bodies doing things at the same time. What I settled on is this chapter. For small things, have her comment on what each body is doing, for longer scenes, have what the other body is doing be in a separate POV. The other option was to have her trade off POV's every paragraph, like I did for part of last chapter. Let me know which is less confusing to read for you guys.
I'm sure you'll notice the character being particularly violent and bloodthirsty, as well as doing a monologue, that's because she is being effected by the various drawbacks that were mentioned in chapter one. I didn't make that clear at the end of last chapter because I forgot to. It's not something she's generally aware of but she can realize it if it goes on too long or too far and suppress her urges.
If anyone's curious, Alejandra has 3 tier 3 powers from the CYOA. Two, came from the vial, they're striker powers Redistribution of Pain, and Reinforcement. They have really good synergy and as one, only works on people and the other mainly on objects, the combination isn't Manton limited. The other power is Lycanthopy. It's a changer power that her shard budded from the MC
Also the fight with Victor Rune and Othala, The MC is actually wrong as to why Othala gave Victor pyrokinesis. She teleported into a swarm of black insects, wearing a black outfit. While she could see them through the insects, they couldn't really make out a humanoid figure so to them it really just looked like a mass of bugs. If they spent a few more seconds looking hard enough, or she dispersed the bugs more, they would have saw her.
As for why The MC panicked over killing victor but acted like she did with Lung, it's simple. With Victor there would be plenty of people trying to take revenge. Also morally speaking, Victor isn't considered to be as bad of a person as Lung. Lung is right on the edge of getting a Kill order, and In canon gets birdcaged, people hate him and there would be less blow back from his death. To clarify, I'm not saying she was trying to kill Lung or would be more OK with killing Ling. She fully expects Panacea to heal him. She's just OK with it looking like she was trying to kill Lung.
Also I have no clue how public the knowledge of Othala and Victor's relationship is. I honestly don't remember and didn't feel like re-reading all of canon to find out so, if people don't know about it in canon, then Glory Girl is basing her thoughts off of PHO rumors.
You'll also notice that she thinks far more about the deaths of parahumans(named characters) than ordinary people. That is for a reason.
