Chapter 0

Taylor collapsed onto the bed; her gaze fixed on the semi-transparent screen in front of her. She was alone, but it was something only she could see anyway. A fact that hadn't helped her mental health at all. In the hospital, just out of a traumatic event and seeing things that didn't exist. They had called her crazy. Hell, she herself had believed she was crazy.

It had taken time, but now she knew the truth.

At least she had gotten something good out of the worst moment of her life. Well, second worst. The world seemed to have been trying to crush her these past few years until nothing was left of the person she used to be, but this could be her sword to fight against the world. To make sure things were done right.

The screen showed her a lot of things. She didn't fully understand it, but it was time for that to change.

It was time to put her power to the test.

[CYPHER]

Cypher, the Moroccan information agent, is a one-man surveillance system that can monitor all the movements of his enemies. There is no secret he doesn't uncover nor maneuver he doesn't detect. Cypher is always watching.

An interesting description, and the list of abilities he supposedly had did justice to that description. Tripwires, spy cameras. All kinds of things that proved he was a versatile and powerful Tinker.

He was just one of the many Agents the screen showed her, and not even the one with the most extravagant abilities, by far. The problem was that she didn't understand what her power consisted of.

Could she summon them to do her work for her? She only said that because of the word agents, as if they worked for her. The first thing she had thought was that she could use their abilities and that was probably correct.

In any case, it would be a power similar to Eidolon's. Only stronger, in a sense. Choose a set of powers instead of being at the mercy of chance.

"Don't get carried away," she muttered, feeling ashamed of herself. "How many parahumans with weird enough powers have compared themselves to the Triumvirate only to end up being B-list at best?"

She wasn't going to get her head in the clouds. The important thing is that it was a stronger power than she had dared to think. She had never considered that she would get superpowers in the first place, but she probably would have assumed some weak and ugly power. I don't know, like controlling bugs or something.

Taylor took a deep breath.

In any case, it was time to test her new power.

"Two agent tokens."

She had read the description of the item more times than she could count. It allowed her to unlock an agent from a list of twenty-five, no more, no less. Her head almost hurt thinking about the possibilities that were at her fingertips.

Taylor moved the list with her finger, her eyes fixed on the RECRUIT that appears below the images of the agents, since she had also reviewed their abilities to exhaustion. She had more than enough information to make a decision.

Now she just had to make it.

She highly doubted that she couldn't unlock the others, that she would choose poorly and then be limited to two weak agents.

I mean, she wasn't even risking anything. The only thing holding her back was nerves.

She wouldn't be weak. Not anymore. Her heart filled with determination. The slight trembling of her hands disappeared. She felt serene for the first time in a long time, suddenly.

"Okay, I choose..."

I thought it would make sense for Taylor to speculate that (among other things, because she would resist believing she got too good of a power), but it's unlocking the abilities of each agent for herself, not summoning them.

Would be nice to see a vote about which agents she should unlock first. If you're not familiar with Valorant, you can take a peek at the wiki. I could have included Taylor reviewing more agent profiles, but I didn't want to turn chapter 0 into a wiki page.

Well, sooner or later she'll be unlocking more, so it doesn't matter much either way.

One last thing. Unlike in the game, Phoenix, Jett, Sage, etc. are not free agents. There are none. She starts from scratch.

It's called chapter 0 because this is more "so this idea it's in my head, i wonder if there's any interest" than a real chapter. I'm still putting the finishing touches on Biological Imperative and In Awe of the Power (yes, already, they were never meant to be very long stories).

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