Hope Through Overwhelming Firepower 2.4
The girl-Tattletale was still sending foul looks towards a very smug Regent nine minutes later when Taylor noted Velocity showing up in a blur of movement.
He began speaking to the moderately torn up Aegis, presumably in order to get a report on the situation. Bitch had unfrozen a few minutes ago, scowling as she held her now normal dogs.
Taylor continued to watch over the rest of the Undersiders.
"Soooo, how's your day going?" Regent questioned.
Taylor raised her eyebrows. "It was going great till you guys showed up. And, shouldn't you be more worried? You're almost certainly going to jail, you know."
Regent shrugged. "Not much I can do at this point."
Taylor noticed Dauntless come flying in, speaking with Velocity after landing. Velocity then moved towards the bank. Mentally musing that her new power was ungodly useful, she turned towards the newly entered Velocity.
"Buster." He nodded. "Dauntless has taken over managing Hellhound until someone with containment foam comes along." He took a look at the other Undersiders. Grue was presumably, his mask made it difficult to tell, brooding. Tattletale was scowling at Regent. And Regent... didn't have anything in particular on his face. "I was coming to help, but you appear to have thing well in hand." He made a nod of appreciation towards me. "Good job."
"Thanks." Taylor paused. "Armsmaster just showed up."
"How do you know?" Velocity questioned.
"I got a new power." Taylor replied. "It's...Hard to explain. I can sort of see everything, from of every angle, large area around me.
"Can you see inside people?" He asked further.
"I'm not sure." Taylor briefly concentrated, before a look of disgust spread across her face. "Eugh. Yes, yes I can."
"Fascinating." Velocity mused.
Before anything else could be said, Armsmaster's voice from outside spoke up. "Move."
Velocity, and Taylor obliged, stepping quickly to the side. Taylor, because she could see what was going to happen. And Velocity, because he had experience working with Armsmaster.
A blast of containment foam entered the bank, binding the remaining Undersiders in place. Armsmaster walking in after it.
"Good work, Buster. You're free to go." Armsmaster spoke up.
Taylor nodded in response, then turned to leave. A brisk walk took her out of the bank as she played around with her new abilities.
The range of her new 'senses' extended to roughly two hundred feet. She could see anything from, any angle, within that range. She could 'expand' her mind to see more than one thing within that range, but it caused an odd pain sensation pro(**)^load when she tried viewing to many things at once.
Taylor's thoughts were interrupted by Aegis walking up to her. "Buster, I see you handled the ones inside the bank. You do good work."
"Hell yeah she does!" Clockblocker spoke out, walking up from the side. "How did you see through Grue's shadows, anyway?" He finished with a question.
"Clockblocker- the Director- oh never mind." Aegis gave up at this point.
Taylor answered Clocblocker's initial question. "I gained some sort of extrasensory vision, or something." Before going into a more detailed explanation.
Browbeat, who had come by halfway through, commented afterwards. "That's... pretty ridiculous. Most powers work on a theme, what's yours than?"
"Adaptability, maybe?" Clockblocker offered.
"Makes a certain amount of sense." Aegis mused.
"But what could she possibly have adapted to that required Lung-beating lasers, and a fair bit of durability?" A newly arrived Gallant questioned. He turned towards Taylor. "You did have your abilities before Lung, correct?"
"Yeah, like Gallant said, I really don't think it's adaptability." Taylor concluded.
Miss Militia walking in signaled the arrival of the rest of the protectorate.
"At this point, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave for now. As an independent hero, you're technically not allowed to be a part of the debriefing process." Aegis explained.
"As much as it sucks, he's actually right." Clockblocker corroborated. "Need to know and all that. Although... shouldn't she come in later, to make a statement or some such?"
"Hmm, Clockblocker has a point there." Aegis mused. "It would probably be easiest if you would come by the PRT headquarters at some point. I'll send a message later, if that's alright."
"It's fine, I have no problem coming by a bit later." Taylor responded. "Anyway it was... nice meeting you all. You're not quite what I expected."
"Hey, not meeting expectations is what I live for." Clockblocker joked.
"If there was ever a more true statement." Aegis commented dryly. "Anyway, it was nice meeting you too."
Taylor turned to walk off. And then she suddenly stumbled.
"What's wrong?" A still slightly shaken Vista asked.
"Ugh, nothing. It's just, people actually do that?" Taylor replied, face crinkled up.
It took a moment for the Wards to catch on. After which, Clockblocker let out a snort of humor.
"Yeah, yeah laugh it up." Taylor mock scowled. "This power is staying off until I need it. I do not need to know those kind of things."
"Probably a good idea, the PRT takes invasion of privacy through parahuman powers fairly seriously." Aegis commented, a hint of humor slowly fading from what she could see of his face.
Slightly sobered up, Taylor nodded in response, before walking off. A final good bye coming from her.
A warm smile spread over Taylor's face, she had something resembling friends now!