Brockton Bay

April 8th 2011

7:47 EST

As expected Tattletale shows up. At least, I think it's her. Girl,blond hair, freckles over her nose, seems like Lisa/Tattletale. What is also expected is the man in biker leathers who's watching from the building across the street, as well as the renaissance fair reject. Grue and Regent. Even after superspeed sweeping the block, I can't find hide nor hair of Bitch. Guess she didn't show up. Grue's power is darkness generation, with a few bells and whistles attached, namely the suppression of sound, and blockage of radio waves. Regent has the ability to cause twitches and spasms in his opponent's body. Given sufficient time, he can completely master someone, walking around their body like a puppet. In lieu of any close quarter fighting ability, he carries a scepter with a stun gun in the bottom. I'm not sure if it's coincidence, but both of them could prove problematic for me if they ambushed me.

What I have to say is for Lisa only, so I don't feel guilty about dispatching her companions. Grue is defeated by a single punch(though I'm extra careful not to hurt him). Regent is much easier, just take the scepter and taze him with it. After holding it against him for a sufficient amount of time, I pull it away, and deposit him in the alley, grab Grue, and take him back too. Tattletales expression, which was her signature grin, morphs into confusion and shock as her teammates hit the floor.

"This wasn't part of our agreement."

I spent the time waiting for her to practice in the library bathroom mirror. The practice was more productive than I intended, as I learned how to time my power to give me red eyes. While it seems mostly pointless with a full face mask, it's scary as hell. The second thing I learned how to do was vibrate my vocal cords to change my voice. After all, you can never be too careful with someone like now, I've timed my reaction speed so I'm seeing things mostly normal, but my body is moving at about 3 times normal speed. The end result is a blurry mess of an image, with barely glowing red eyes and the occasional flicker of red lighting over my body. By the time she's processed this, she's already backing away with her hands up. "Easy there, cowboy, we're just here to talk."

"If you just wanted to talk, then I don't see why you needed company. What I have to say was for your ears only."

She simply shrugs and responds with the unbeatable argument.

"Name someone who wouldn't bring backup to a situation like this."

Logic. My worst enemy. Wait a second.

"You didn't tell Coil you were coming here, did you?"

I don't need Coil prematurely learning of my existence. That would be awful, especially given my next plans. Her eyes ever so slightly widen at that, but then it's gone and she's put this smirk on her face.

"So what if I did?"

"Then you'll live to regret it."

Normally, I wouldn't say something like that, but intimidation is my strategy of choice here. I've been doing well so far by pretending it's just a game, and any success I have is due to my high school drama skills. Not like I expect it to work, after all, this is the person who mouthed off to Jack Slash.

"Well then what information did you have that you thought was so valuable to me?" I zip up to her face for the next part.

"Maybe I won't tell you now, teach you about bringing uninvited guest."

I really wish that I had a camera. Her expression is one of those things you can't describe without a picture. Still, she takes it in stride. "If you know so much about me, what makes you thinks that I'll pay for this information?"

Hook, line, and sinker."I know what Coil's power is."

Her face visibly pales, before shaking it off. "What? How? Who are you?"

I raise a figure"Ah,ah,ah. Money first. Then I'll decide if I still want to tell you."

Her faces falls in defeat. "I didn't bring any money." Damn. She brightens up real quick though. "I don't suppose that I can convince you to sell it for 200$?"

Well I had two plans in case this happened. Plan A, go! "200$ in advance, and the rest paid later. "

Her grin is back."Deal."

Sounds good. Except for two things. "How do you plan to contact me?"

She shrugs, then reaches into her back pocket and fishes out 200$ and a flip phone that's seen better days. I accept it, and superspeed it into one of my concealed pockets.

"I'll contact you with that."

It could be bugged, so I'll have to keep it off until I check for messages. "How can I trust you to pay your full debt?"

Lisa shrugs again, and says, "Well you know where I live right?".

"Indeed." I pocket the phone in one of my newly discovered pockets. "Do follow through, or else Mr and Mrs Livesey will get an anonymous call as to the whereabouts of their daughter. "

With that, I take my leave.