Premise: Jack was more successful than he had realized and when he convinced Amy to try being evil…she went a bit more in depth than anyone had expected. Bonesaw would be jealous of the virus and parasites that Amelia has dreamt of unleashing on the people that she hated…

"Hey guys, what's covered in blood and tentacles, has no nose, and constantly mumbles Protectorate while trying to kill you?"
"Not the time, Clock!"
"I'm not joking, I'm legitimately curious what is trying to kill us this time."

Evil is Resident

"So, Glory Girl, do you think that we can kill her now please?" I snarled as another of those licker things died to my bugs. I could do fuck all against the zombies, but the lickers at least I could kill easily enough. So much exposed muscle and brain to burrow through and destroy. If only they died faster.

I still hated the name that Clockblocker had given them though. That was just gross. Appropriate, but gross.

"Will you stop asking me that?!" Glory Girl shouted back, her fist blowing the head off of another zombie dog. She was useful to have around at least. Even if her constantly moaning about how she wanted to bring Biohazard back from the dark side was getting grating. I was all for redemption, but Amelia had lost her shot at that when she started turning the people of my city into fucking zombies!

"She has a fucking point, Vicky!" Laserdream snapped back. She was hovering in the air a few feet away and sniping any of the zombies that made it over the cordon. Thankfully, we were finally reaching a lul in the onslaught and she dropped back to the ground. Laserdream came over to me and pried the bandage away from my shoulder, using her finger to cauterize the wound I had received a few minutes ago.

"I know this hurts, I've done it to myself before. How are you not at least wincing, Skitter?"

Tattletale grunted from her spot on the ground a few feet back. "Her pain sensation is all jacked up. Thank Bakuda for that."

"It's really not that bad," I muttered. "And I was being serious, can we please try to get to Amelia and kill her already? Whatever that giant, no-nose, deathless, tentacle demon thing is, it's just the start of the horrible. She's been ramping up."

"I know," Glory Girl muttered.

"Zombie dogs and zombie humans were bad enough. Those clawed lizard things were nightmares, and the skinless monkeys are going to leave me with nightmares, but those at least die."

"I know," Glory Girl snarled.

"Clockblocker's named the lizard things 'hunters' by the way, Skitter," Tattletale commented, not bothering to lift her head from her chest.

I ignored her. "The giant fucking spiders have been literally eating people. I found an insectoid thing a few blocks away that can stick a tube down your throat and fill you with some sort of larva."

"Wait what?" Clockblocker snapped his head to me. "Why are we just hearing about this?!"

"I killed it, but where there's one, there's going to be more. And now we have that tentacle monster thing that I actually hope wants to just kill us. Because I don't know about you, but I would really prefer not to be stalked forever by a goddamn monster because your sister has gone insane!"

Bitch nodded. "Yeah. What she said."

Aegis groaned and rubbed at his temples. "Look can we please just drop it? I don't think it's a question of whether that thing is trying to kill us or not. It was…very persistent when trying to smash me into a pulp."

"I don't know why any of you are afraid," Tattletale said, finally lifting her head and scowling at us all. "We all know that it's going to come right for me when it finds us again. She thinks I'm her personal fucking demon or nemesis or something."

"We should call it Nemesis…" Clockblocker muttered.

Glory Girl slammed her fist into the nearest wall and snarled. "You started all this! She was fine before you destroyed her at the bank!"

"You were going to cave my goddamn chest in you bitch! Of course I riled her up, what the fuck else was I supposed to do? I'm a fucking theif and a bitch. I needle people, I talk and I annoy them. I don't get to smash things, I just get to fucking talk! So I talked! Amelia was screwed six ways to Sunday before I did anything. If all it took to set her off was talking maybe you should look at your home life."

"Come over here and say that you - "

"Hey! Everyone just, just calm down, okay? Please." I had to salute Gallant for trying. He wasn't going to succeed, but he was making an effort. "We need to work together if we are going to survive this. Vicky, I know that you don't want to admit it, but…"

"I KNOW!" Glory Girl screamed. She clenched her hands into fists in her hair and collapsed onto the ground, tears rolling from her eyes. I was completely unimpressed. Killing the two approaching lickers was far more important than her drama act. "She did something to me before she starting this fucking nightmare okay?! I'm having a really hard time thinking of anything but how much I fucking love her and I know that she's killed the entire goddamn city! I just…I can't…I can't deal with this right now…" Her legs curled up to her chest and she started crying in earnest as Gallant went to awkwardly pat her back.

I frowned as my swarm detected something at the edges of my range. "Motherfucker, he's back. Aegis, does that gun from Kid Win still have a charge?"

He paled. "No. I used the last one on the plant thing five minutes ago…"

"Fuck. He's not going for my swarm clones. People, are we fighting or moving?"

Bitch stood up next to me and growled. "Fucker killed Brutus. I want to destroy him!"

"Yeah, well you have no dogs to help with this fight, Bitch, so sit down. He will punt you across the street as soon as blinking. Aegis! Are we fighting or are we running again?"

"I-I-I haven't been able to get through to anyone with the Protectorate yet."

Tattletale stood up, unholstering her gun. "Skitter, Aegis has gone bye-bye, you're in charge. Orders please."

"Wait, when did we decide this?" Laserdream asked looking back and forth between Aegis, Tattletale, and me.

"Just now," Clockblocker chimed in, nodding at me. "Sorry, Aegis, but you're starting to freeze up buddy. Skitter, how do we get out?"

The Nemesis thing roared, and pulped another zombie that was in-between it and us. I gathered the remaining spiders I had and started to weave a web over the opening in front of us. Maybe if he got enough of a running start then Clockblocker could freeze my web and we could dice the thing into pieces…

I didn't hold out much hope of that working though; nothing was ever that simple.

"Okay, everyone, this is what we're going to do."