Being a professional Asshole, and yes, there is a capital letter meant to be there, thanks, I have a confession to make. It takes a certain sort of finesse to pull off staring death in the face without appearing to be a complete and utter uncaring bastard.
Normally, I can do that...this...
This was an Endbringer attack, something I could do absolutely nothing to help against. It was like Luke Skywalker had to fly against the Deathstar in a fucking biplane, seriously what could I do?
I had shivered when the Endbringer sirens sounded off. Fucking hell. I was scared, not for me, but mom and Taylor, and hell even the other girls. Who am I kidding, I was fucking terrified for them.
Huh...isn't that a trip, I honestly do care about everyone but me...
..Distressing...
Cape life for the most part involved a lot of grandstanding, unending games involving copious amounts of property damage, loss of civilian life and all that jazz. It was supposed to be, for the most part anyway, a simple game of cops and robbers, one without any interest in the collateral damage. Bad guys and good guys, you know. Just so long as any accidental deaths not attributed to the monster of the month weren't pegged on a Cape.
So we wouldn't give up all hope.
Then the Endbringers came.
Then we could simply pray for a painless death.
Those... those... Abominations...
Fuck maybe I should take up drinking again after all...
I stared at the TV screen while I emotionally bluescreened, holding Taylor at my side as she was sobbing into my shoulder muttering to herself. Amy was curled between us muttering about search and rescue denial. Tammi was snarling about how she could have helped, and Victoria hovered beside her knowingly while whispering agreement.
We could only watch as Canberra died to the Simurgh, and no one in charge of the vanguard would let anyone near it to help the poor bastards.
Her scream, her scream of insanity, wasn't worth fighting in order to save the capital of a nation.
Pulling Taylor closer, all I could really think to myself as I watched that bitch of a false angel fly away leaving the damned behind to be sealed in a dome left to their fates as was her fucking wont, was rage.
They wouldn't let anyone fight that Endbringer. Heroes, Villains, Rogues, Military, Civilians.
The innocent victims were just written off as the various capes, heroic, villainous, or neutral, could only watch on impotently.
All while the rest of humanity wept for the damned.
I fucking hate this planet.
...I'm going to have to do something about this, aren't I?
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Fuck...