Quick Note: So, I know what some of you will be thinking reading this chapter. Looking at you Mike :) I just want to give you something to think about before you get into it. Taylor hasn't had time to make a real impact on the timeline yet so some events are going to happen, but that doesn't mean they will be the same.

Choices 2-3

For all that phones make life easier there are time when they all but kill you. Or in mom's case did kill you. Yay Happy thoughts. In my case though, I thought my blood would freeze in my veins when my personal phone got a text from a blocked number with only 3 words.

Help.

Docks.

Hurry.

It had to be from Tattletale's phone. Who else had this number? I texted back making my decision as I did.

On my way.

I quickly fished everything from their hiding places and donned my costume.

With a thought, I was gone.

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The Docks were on fire.

Well not all of them but enough of the buildings were to give the air a hazy orange glow through the smoke. Sirens filled the air and every now and then I could hear a monstrous roar.

I picked my rooftops carefully and made my way closer. I had to find Tattletale. I wish she had been more specific in her location.

A stream of flames shot up into the air from a few blocks ahead.

With my luck that's where Tattletale would be. I used short jumps to get closer just up until I saw what was causing all the damage.

It was a dragon. Sort of. It's scales were made of metal and it's face was covered in a dragon's mask. It walked on two heavily muscled legs and surprisingly wore pants. A dragon man wearing pants? This was Lung, leader of the ABB.

"Kill roooo" He roared and shot a long stream of flames at a line of parked cars, peeling paint and shattering glass.

Behind the cars I saw two hunched forms. Tattletale who covered her head from the heat and Regent who was laying motionless beside her. Where was the rest of her team. A sharp explosion drew my attention to the right. There a block or so away I could see the lizard dogs racing around on the roof tops chasing after a man in a red mask. Every time one of the dogs would reach the man, he would dissolve.

Oni Lee.

Another roar brought me back to the task at hand. I teleported behind Lung and threw a pair of fire balls at his back. Both slammed home with enough oomph that it forced him to take a step to prevent falling. I made another pair of projectile flames.

"Over here asshole!" I yelled. Banter isn't my strong suit.

Lung turned in slow, deliberate motions. Or maybe that's how I saw it through the adrenaline flooding my veins. I had probably pissed off the most powerful villain in the Bay after all.

"Ooorr ooo?" He growled.

Who're you? I guess mangled though it was, it was still understandable.

"You're worst nightmare." God I am so lame.

So lame in fact Lung laughed. "Oool eer oo eye a ooolsss eeff"

Im going to guess he meant he was going to kill me.

Lung raised a hand and send a jet of fire at me, but with a thought I was off to one side. And the flames missed me by a good ten feet.

"That all you got?" I threw my own fire back at him. The first missed him entirely but the second exploded on his chin, rocking his head back with the force of the blow.

He growled and sent more fire my way. Again, I teleported but back further down the street. "Come on asshole." I yelled. But lung wouldn't move instead he spun around and blasted the line of cars with fire again.

I snarled and hurled more fire at him, but after the first flew by his head, Lung hunched his shoulders and braces his feet to weather the blows. Not that they were much good but for a bit of force against someone like him.

Then I had an idea. A wicked cruel idea. I focused on my fire, feeding fire from both hands into one large ball of writhing fire. I looked at where Lung stood and judged the area around him. And right when he turned his head to look back at me, I teleported.

I landed in front of his monstrous form and swung my ball of fire like a golf club. Right up between his legs and square into his crotch.

The fireball exploded with a tremendous 'Whump' and blasted Lung off his feet to flip and roll onto the ground fifteen feet away. He was making high pitch snarls. Without my immunity to my powers I probably would have been thrown much farther. But I didn't have time to ponder it. With a hurried bit of focus I teleported behind the car landing next to Tattletale.

There was a new presence behind the improvised barricade. A man dressed in biker leathers wearing a helmet with a skull designed into the front. He whirled on me fist raised.

"Grue wait," Tattletale gasped grasping her left leg with both hands.

The skull man paused.

"She's here to help." Tattletale groaned through clenched teeth.

"Can you get Tattletale out of here?" Grue asked, all enmity forgotten. His abrupt change in attitude was jarring.

I looked at Tattletale, my only friend. I damn well would get her out of here. "I got her."

Grue nodded and picked up regent in a fireman's carry. "Meet up at the Doc's or back at base?"

Tattletale nodded.

Grue turned his head to me. "I'm going to make some cover. It will last a bit but not long. Use it to get the hell out of here and Lung'll burn himself out." With that he turned and darkness began pouring off him. I don't mean he was producing smoke or any other petty obscurement. I mean pure undiluted darkness. It was a cold misty feeling that I could somehow feel through my clothes. I couldn't see beyond maybe two feet. I couldn't hear but for muffled sounds. It was disorienting as hell.

I never even saw Grue leave.

A blast of flame rocked the car Tattletale was leaning against but in the murky darkness I couldn't even see the light of lungs flames.

I felt my way over to Tattletale and grabbed her hand.

"Hey." Tattletale greeted. "Glad you came, but how are you going to get me out of here?"

"Teleporting obviously and you messaged me remember."

She made a sound that was half sob half laugh. "I'm doomed." There was clear pain in her voice.

It was awkward as hell to get her close enough to me to teleport but we managed though Tattletale was almost screaming at every movement of her broken leg. It pretty much ended up with Tattletale all but sitting in my lap.

I thought about one of the roof tops that I had used to get here. It was maybe a block or so away and I was confident I could manage this time. I focused annnddd.

Nothing happened.

"Any time now, Wisp," Tattletale urged.

"It's not working." I couldn't believe it.

"Try again." Tattletale turned over in my arms and wrapped her arms around me with a keen of pain as she jostled her leg.

Another blast of flame flew overhead, close enough that It could clearly be seen. Tattletale hissed in pain from the heat. I didn't feel it, must be all the clothes I had on.

"Hurry." Tattletale hugged her body close.

I wanted to get out of here as much as she did. I focused, this time on the rooftop I had used to survey the street we now lay on.

Again nothing.

A cold fear slithered through my veins. I couldn't teleport, with or without Tattletale.

"Oh, oh god." I whispered feeling the panic setting in.

"Wisp, keep trying." Tattletale's own voice has an edge of fear to it.

"I am. It's not working."

Tattletale muttered to herself. "I'm going to try something keep trying."

I focused again and again and again until I felt Tattletale's hands slip under my hoodie and shirt onto my bare stomach, and slide upwards to her obvious targets. I focused desperately, using the discomfort and embarrassment at the invasion and I felt the familiar falling feeling of teleportation. I grasped at it, desperately focused on the feeling of wanting to escape.

We landed in a sprawl maybe a hundred feet behind Lung out of the range of Grue's darkness. We might have been fine to sneak away but when we landed Tattletale was on the bottom and my weight fell squarely on her leg.

She screamed.

Lung's head whipped around at the sound, neck bending in a hideously unnatural angle.

Oh shit.

He was truly a monster now. His skin was fully covered in metallic scales now and he stood at what was probably ten feet in height. He gave a roar of challenge and thrust his hands at Tattletale and myself flames burst forth and there was no car to hide behind.

Not trusting my ability to teleport us away again, I rolled off Tattletale and brought my own flames to bear against Lung's.

The clash was violent and explosive. Flames flew in all directions except for behind me which was the point I guess.

Lung threw more flames and I countered with my own. Again and again until I noticed, far too late, he was getting closer.

Much closer.

But I couldn't move or Tattletale would die, or wish she had.

My entire arms were now ablaze with a flowing change of colors as I forced my flames to stream out to meet Lung's barrage. But I was tiring quickly. I had never done more than toss a few fire balls around.

He was closer now and I could see his hellish eyes narrow in anticipation. He knew he had me. What's more he knew that I knew, and that had to give him some sick thrill.

This was it.

I was going to die if I didn't get the hell out of here. And if I did, my only friend would die in my place. I had a choice to make.

Stand and Die or Run and Live.

I looked over my shoulder at my friend laying on the ground, a look of sad resignation on her face.

She already knew what I was going do.

"I'm sorry." I whispered.

Author's Note: Hoo Boy, I expect I'm going catch hell from someone for this chapter. I know it's short but I really wanted to get this chapter out there and the next chapter is already in the works so at least there is that.

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Wisp's faulty teleportation will be explained in another chapter or so in case you haven't already guessed the cause. Also, in a similar vein I may slightly tweak some capes powers from time to time but it shouldn't be too upsetting. I'm mostly using the wiki on how powers work front. It's to keep me grounded on the subject while I bounce between stories but I do love the idea of powers growing under stress.

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