Welcome to worm a parakeven radio serial this series is a fan project came tribute to wild those web serial worm It came graphic violence strong language and it also did matter. What's their discretion is advised? Well, I'm glad to make it. Thank you, ma'am director piggy I'm assuming you assume correctly shall we sure where's everyone this airport with attack?
I want a little feeling just three days ago. It shut down for the time being with only special cases such as yourself come We're going I take it things are bad. Yes, we have seen this type of situation before if not to this extreme Rockin Bay was a power taking only a spark to set off and the rival and bringers a bit more than a spark You think Leviathan did on purpose attacked the city because he knew this would happen if some raised an idea I wouldn't dismiss it, but our folks should be on what we do in the here and now the team here consists of Herm the clob logger business kid man and shadow stalker We had two members that attack and a third language family when I evacuated so there's only five of us there will be more We value on a parakeven. I trust you know your classifications.
I do memorize that as a rhyme as suggested by the old boss Mover shaker boot and breaker master thinker blaster thinker striker changer trumped and stranger My classification is brute and changer. I have normally durable and shape-changing ability respectively. These returns meant for villains something that always bugged me All right, this potential recruit is tentatively marked down as a tinker slash mover Others may make themselves known and we will approach each of them in her to help feel the gap in a mean time Pleasure is around from New York something. No, it's just we know each other our teams were friendly rivals kind of I certainly hope this rivalry isn't going to hamper your Ability to seem work.
No, no ma'am. No ma'am clob logger in this are your best assets clob logger is a striker segment with a touch based Time top, so visit is a shaker nine large scales based distortion jeez Louise the others Can't win as a tinker for guns anti gravity devices primarily shadow stalkers more in Vegas record three sub labels are stranger to move One can become super light semi-gaseous transparent and capable of passing through silo services I've ordered these files losing my priority So you'll find the most neat information at the top of pal then the top priority as far as opposition goes is the archer's bridge merchants Superpower drug deals with a lot of big numbers. Am I missing something? They become a rallying point for a lowest run society two men to be in two where they have not think I like what the merchants Is the way to become the haves so they've got what a following of homeless squatters mostly in our meal They've been attacking sitting infrastructure and they repeatedly see these medical supplies and food as they come in so big priority We'll be safeguarding incoming supplies and relief efforts protecting key areas of the city so can recreate from the disaster Let's see the next group is Henry's chosen one of the two major options of the air in the room and power 88 And we're showing our level who valid early merciless and reveling in the current chaos I take it He has a lot of followers a large group in turn the pair of human numbers at present And the second group the pure is the second option of the airing group I take it small but powerful their leader He has made over to us.
We have repeat And you are no way shape or form minutes agree any deals noted let's see coil powers unknown the travelers have high ratings on the powers But the crimes are low end pretty much there's the undersiders three master classifications in one team We can't afford to go on the part-time being faultlings crew mercenaries low rating meo grating low rating a shaker 12 seriously The girl has cognitive efficiency that reduce the effect of virtue poses But yes again that group is not imminent threat in a current situation I might suggest you leave them before you leave them be if you cross paths the server groups train for priority Okay, I'll just memorize by the end of the week. I expect you will that brings us more mundane matters You'll be enrolled full-time at Arcadia High School and your teachers have been informed about your special nature I'm afraid there's no easy answer as to how the rest of the student body will react to you I've dealt with it before I'll manage your quarters have been checked in double check so there's no small metal no screws nails Yes a little I appreciate the thought Not really One thing one thing them Forgive me for saying so but I get the impression you don't like or respect director I'm strong here point. I just thought you should know he's something like a father figures me He's the one who recruited me to the wards got me up to speed I've already made plans to go to his house for a bit this summer I'm putting myself on your in your bad books by saying so but I just thought I should let you know I'll step to a Step up to defend him if you start putting him down. Sorry Hi my apologies for putting you in that situation as I'm preparing him as first you can clear a long-time panel established In our face of plan much effort was dedicated to setting up the protector and awards and showing the public ad heroes They could look up to like both faces like a personality as we enter the next phase Our objective is to push the push the public a margin beyond air comfort zone We are encouraging to promote a distance of rocks, which is an unfortunate turn to Harold's back to early days Right this is a sense of subject slow-to-evant this major corporations are particularly litigious when perry was getting ball The second half of this face is getting the public more comfortable outliers the people with stranger powers and stranger appearances You're like a will you have a clearly unnatural appearance if you're giving for saying so probably a problem But you have things and people are interested in you for that all goes according to plan We intend for you to become a member of a core protectorate team making your face national even international if you are willing wow Yeah, I'm definitely okay with that man.
Of course this hinges on your ability to lead your team into here and now of course It seems will end shortly any question before we do one. I'm something to arrange interstate training session with the New York and Boston wards groups It was utterly quiet inside the box. There's barely any sense of motion or movement from the elevator ticker designed It had to be I avoided touching the chrome walls are railing It was probably coated with something but emerging with a piece of railing stuck to me would make for a terrible first impression My new team was here each with their mask off clock rock You're scared of me distressfully arms hold it as you sat down Shout-out was less threatening But still held her focus on me part of me was revealed to see at least a little bit of I can't be here Kidman was in civilian clothes very normal looking this is stood out as a new unusual young I had someone as young as her in Boston with a boy had been a tinker a limited pre-cog content to work and communicate with them from the Command station this will have been stepped and stepped out in the field three fingers on her left hand were bandaged with Crimson Seeping through the white her eyes were puffy as though she'd been crying until very recently. Hello.
Hey What's up look I won't make a big deal this you the guys upstairs want me in charge It's going to take me a short while to get to speed but I hope to prove to you guys I can and will work as hard as anyone from everything I've learned you guys are an excellent team And I hope I can do you justice as a leader. It's my hope that we can improve on a winning formula I've talked to the director about some special training training. You just lost me if you hear me out I think I'd like a situation out there I said I would go I seem to guy I knew for my high school physics class would be dragged into an alley by a half I'm going to met what I'm starting with a needle before I got away the Hospitals are shut down or a capacity so I brought him here he's upstairs right now getting drunk to ensure he doesn't get HIV Kidman and I stopped some luminance and gas masks for mixing up my own young bleaching to a poison gas You know why they wanted to offer people on an apartment clock so they could lose the place and stay there People don't fucking crazy out there and you're talking training. I didn't mean now I was saying in terms of future the training would be something to look forward to after this crisis has passed I can't believe that we've got to have hope pull a 15 hour patrol out there then come back here and talk to me about hope You know I can almost play along go with the blind optimism say you're training But you don't even mention the guy you're replacing if you were to the dead.
I didn't mean to dismiss them are their sacrifice I just know them and going to go check my family. Hey, they're in costume. He's running trouble You back in the morning my men's pocket. I need to take a break.
Anyways, why do you guys need me? I'll sleep. I'll start my patrol What thought to make sure he gets home and he has some back up you can't leave me while I'm back Maybe a clock locker though with you. Thank you with that half the team was gone.
I fucked up already. Awesome. No They're just tired and not just lack of sleep. You'll see what I mean You could have mentioned ages and gallon, but you can't be blamed if clock clobber didn't give you time to get around to it Nobody's really in the mood for speeches, right ages and gallant the other ones who died You didn't even learn their names.
Never mind what I just said. Yeah, you fucked up She was halfway out of the room when I saw a rope at one cheek with the back of her hand. I I just got here shit You're a hard person to find. Oh You shouldn't sneak up on people in our own patrol.
What? You nearly killed me. It's a tranquilizer shot And you have the fires leave behind you. She's she'd you're up my life doing that a little twitchy.
Good to see you I suppose being twitchy is excusable and the apology is accepted. So you join the team now temporary stay until you guys fill out your Again, maybe a few weeks maybe as much as a mother to well tell me we're out on control that you might need some backup I don't do back up and I don't do the team thing unless someone makes me but I want to hang with another crossbow fish She and Otto is that the right word of the fishy? No, it is the brown hair guy at the computer told me you'd be around here It took me almost two hours to spot you though. I did get sidetracked by some kids taking clothing from a broken display window But sure you like a move outside.
Bye. Bye. Grab my hook. Grab my hook.
It's not my automatic crossbow here Be artless cute. So I if you can't keep up don't worry about it keep moving in a straight line I'm most hands touchable parts a spot so I'll scout a head for trouble double back every minute or so check on you Shadow Stalker sweats a cloak over one shoulder simultaneously shifting into a shadow state She turned and leads 20 feet to the side of the neighboring building grabbing a window cell She vaulted herself straight up the face of the building I've another window cell and then huge herself up once more to reach the rooftop Here was one of the surprisingly few people who could pull out the skin types of costume I mounted a chain on a needle and got ready to catch up The pull of the chain wasn't quite enough to carry me straight to the rooftop But the enhanced friction I applied to my cleats was enough to catch the side of the building involved up loading another chain It took me a second to spot the vague blur that was shadow stalker almost three buildings ahead The room was practically gliding as she fell moving more horizontally than vertically I infused the free quick length of sharpened metal with my power the more power there wasn't it the less it was affected by the natural Loss of the universe gravity air resistance and general physics held less and less sway over it I could fine tune it for whatever balance of these I wanted have it stick one day back to her off And I was very good at timing things The chain continued on to strike the roof top below and in front of me nestling in deep as the effect wore off Bonding on a molecular level to material around it What's tiring constantly running but I didn't want to look bad in front of shadow stalker the only girl close to my age here She stood waiting for me as I rode down the chain to her Don't you run out of chain take your teammate back home specializes in replication and cloning small pack back here Consumes energy from a small fusion battery to create a steady supply I've also got a kit back base that makes me a fresh stock of bolts. I can use one of those why'd you stop? You see something come there's a woman down there surrounded by a bunch of guys who say what they're about to pull something What why haven't you done anything yet?
These things go smoother if the culprits are clearly committing a crime when you step in. Hey stop let go And there we go wait hold on console a woman under attack by 12 or so orgin areas shadow stalker and plus shut stepping in acknowledge Seems like we're oscillating this a baseball bat passed harmlessly through shadow stalker's head and response She stepped back and shot him in the side of the neck a fraction of a second after the glass arrow stuck She drove her armored elbow at the spot where the bolt has struck home The basketball live get the others two more shots and two men dropped on their backs in the water realizing what they were up against The group began to scatter still running one ran headlong to a wall and bed It's like a close line to self Trying to see he didn't drown very nearly cost me one of the funds pulled a gun But my enhanced needle was fast enough to pin it to the wall a second shot The mill struck the thug through the cross of the second jeans pinning them to the wall He was backing up to hidden screams So he clearly wasn't willing down to get hit anywhere important made lightweight by her power shadow stalker We thought the nearest wall creating directly toward three of the retreating men She dropped out of her shadow form as she kicked driving them into the water hard Smoky dark flickers appeared where limbs and weapons passed through her one man hesitated seeing the feet tell of you what they were doing and Shadow stalker took the opportunity to drop the shadow state She leaned out of the way of one desperate punch from the other man then grabbed him She pulled her forward with a hard tug on his collar and a counterclockwise turn of her body then brought her right knee into his ribs Ooh, metal knee pad, that's going to hurt The other man is hacked but shadow stalker went shabby just long enough for his nights had passed through her Then slammed her metal masking to his face She used her grip to pull him to one side as she just done with his compatriot Helped by a swift kick to the side one leg The heel of her free hand against the gap between the man's skull and his jaw Oh, sipping, flinch it, your man here is getting loose The second he's just trying to warm his way free I fired a bolt just beneath his armpit Nailing his sweatshirt to the ground Another just above his opposite shoulder and behind his neck secured him I had been caught up in the spectacle of watching shadow stalker fight Kind of horrified fascination Shadow stalker was chasing one of the stragglers With the grip of his ear afforded her she thrust him face first into the ground with enough force that he couldn't absorb the impact of his arms I drew a handful of darts each nine inches long I channeled my power to each and then flung them at the feet of the two remaining thugs Or their shoes fixed firmly to the ground and they fell awkwardly Two tranquilizer bolts appeared in the rear end of one and the upper thigh of the other Shadow stalker These darts had been my weapon of choice for a long time Alongside the sword I'd eventually retired after too many fights turned out badly I haven't had the heart to change her code name even if it didn't quite apply anymore Here A restraint device, I haven't seen one of these since training Time's like this code form City wants no patrol and now sitting around with dark thumbs up her hands Just waiting for the cops to cart these fuckers off After a little bit of work the thumbs are hanging upside down six feet off the ground Courtesy of the device and a few of my spikes The device would signal nearby police and PRT officers and direct them here They'd use their own equipment to make sure the restraint device lowered the men So the thugs could be brought in the custody As I picked up the last one there was a blow The man hung his head A turtle blood dribbling from his lip I dropped an hat to evade the weapon as it swung towards her head It was the woman that the men had been attacking She held a metal trash can lid in two hands A bullet was to me, she swung the lid at the man's head Hey stop! No, not her Fuckers! How?
He's not in opposition to defend himself Doesn't deserve to She's going to kill him Better that we give her another few swings and run her power That's where the second time tonight Where she won't get over it for a long time We'll stop her before she goes too far No, this isn't right, you're better than this You have to be it Let me go Stop, shut up, stop your help I'm on her side to be honest So am I it, which means stopping her from doing anything she regrets Let me go, fuckers like this for my daughter Is she here? Your daughter? She's home! It happened last week Let me add a fucker Stop attacking him and I will The woman didn't have her response Beyond continued struggles Eventually the woman pulled three and staggered back Gave me an angry look When the lady moved for the man again I stepped in her way, raising my arm blessed That was apparently enough The woman scowled further And turned and fled the scene Half running, half whipping Thanks for the backup So would you, I don't do the backup thing He'll live Him and his buddies deserve what they got That's not your call to make Sure it is It sounds like this We're a cop Judge Durina If it really comes down to execution We're the ones with the power No, that's wrong Suppose we'll have to agree to disagree You can finish your patrol alone Whatever If you want to be like that I'm only on the team because I have to be You're so you're doing me a favor Prepare to fly solo though Three strikes Leading shot for saying hello The way Shadow's not going to delay Helping the woman And now this We're still one thing I wanted to do Console Hi, Glitchette Do you old those guys okay?
Guys are dealt with But I'm going to do the rest of my nights patrol alone Sorry, I should have warned you Tends me easier to work around her So she's always like that This is unfamiliar territory for me I might need you to brief me if I run into a cape So I know what I'm potentially running into Of course, I'm not going anywhere And on that subject I remember meeting someone when I was in town for the attack What can you tell me about the cape With the stuffed animals Of pariahp Apparian Apparian doll was a kind of doll About 150 years ago Apparian's costume was actually closer To a more classical Victorian-style horseland doll From the same era Oh, how oddly convenient you know that She's a rogue Fashion student with the costume and stuffed animals Is a gimmick to help her build for a professional reputation And stand out Tentative rating of master six But we haven't really seen her fight outside of the Leviathan counter Student So she'll be near college? College is gone Caput Let me see Last we heard She was situated between the spot where the college was And the lake downtown This the rain into where the other night But she's asleep right now And we're behind on paperwork So you don't know exactly what happened And I'd be going in blind She's harmless though This parion Nobody's harmless at a time like this Listen, easiest way to get to that area You'll find a link to the northwest Walk the perimeter of it to reach the north end The area she could be staying at She'll only be a blocker too wide If she's even awake I've got clock blocker buzzing in Probably to check in for the night Give me the cliff notes on his nightly patrol So I'm going silent until you need me, okay? Sure It didn't take long to find the lake Leviathan Had made in the downtown area Given that the streets were flooded with water Anyways, the crater itself was distinguishable Only by the barrier around it And a dark shadow beneath the water Where there was nothing beneath to reflect light Hulks the fallen buildings sat in the center of the water The orange light of a fire on the top floor One of the buildings suggested that Someone had sworn to one of the buildings And was staying there A very low vertical line Straight painted in yellow on opposite walls Traffic cones Some broken An orange strike barrier And the remains of one yellow raincoats out in the water Much of it weighed down by rubble Together the organized debris Forms a brightly colored line Joining the marks that had been Straight painted on the wall I stepped over the line And immediately felt a resistance A thread caught in the moonlight There was a muffled slashing sound And a 12-foot tall gorilla Leed from the nearest rooftop To land directly in front of me It swung its arms wildly in front of it Missing me Then slammed both knuckles down in the water Crashing one side of the orange strike barrier I almost shot it before realizing It was a real Damn cocks stitched together And it was blind Heri and her dad had run She spotted me And the gorilla moved to the place itself Between the two of us Her creations can see only what she sees Their puppets Stay back I'm staying back Remember me? Yes You talked to me before the fight Pulled away from that horrible little girl Yeah, if I could just back I'm a hero Remember the words I'm in town for a little while Doesn't matter I made a deal Me my friends and family Get a place to stay here A fair share of the food and water In exchange I keep people from entering I'm a hero I'm not going to cause trouble I don't know you're telling the truth Nothing's saying you couldn't be lying I have a deed It doesn't matter anyways I made a deal I'm keeping to it One hundred percent neutrality You trust fast I fight you Okay I won't step over the line I've heard you were around here You're one of the only recognizable faces from here I thought I'd stop by See how you were doing Coping?
Good, good Look I'm here if you need anything If people make trouble And you're not strong enough to protect that neighborhood There Or if you need resources That you couldn't get otherwise Like names or medical services Call me Can I give you my card? Okay Phone lines are down But cell phones work around here You guys need anything here? I don't know what the situation is The supply has just gotten to the city A few hours ago Don't know that stuff is being distributed But I could see about making sure You guys have something Yeah, we are low on freshwater The stuff we're waiting in Has too much salt content And you can even boil it clean if you want it to I don't think Okay, freshwater Hey What? Seriously, are you okay?
You're holding up I hate fighting I hate confrontation Even this being here Having just thought I might have to fight you Fight anyone Makes me feel edgy My teeth are chattering And I'm not even cold You've based on Leviathan You've been better than a lot of people Do you know how long it took me to get my head together? To actually step up and help? You did You stepped up Give yourself credit You're strong I want this to be over I'm so so scared that someone's gonna come and try to loot this place And I won't be able to do anything You've got my card I can't promise I'll arrive immediately But I'll be staying at the words headquarters Which isn't too far That helps a lot More than you know And I can come back on my controls if you want Check everything's okay Give you an update on what it can do about supplies Please do If you plug the strings twice I will know it's you I'm using my telekinesis on the strings I'll feel it Deal I'm fleshed by the way In case you didn't know Oh, um, I didn't My name's uh, um It's okay I'm an idiot Lily Uh, Sabah Nice to meet you Sabah I'm still not letting you over the line Okay But maybe you want to walk with me? Do you patrol of the perimeter of your territory?
I'll stay on the side Okay Thank you So, you're a fashion student? Welcome to pair humans 103 Theories and patterns I see me a packed auditorium And according to their romant list We have no less than 300 students taking the TV course A bump up from the last two trimesters So I must be doing something, right? 6PRT uniforms sent in the front row Helmets off Three with notebooks open on the desks in front of them Welcome push that set in the desk Close to the door Extrading murmured words As the professor on screen being Going over the course syllabus Them? Me?
Missed a kid win Welled push that Shadow's talker and glory girl None of whom are too happy to be here So Let me start off by addressing And banishing some assumptions you may have This is not an easy class And anyone who took Pair of humans history and society Or pair of humans case studies and powers Will be aware of this Even for those of you Who, something of a shock to you This is your first university Here, I'm early I'll be looking for creativity Problem solving and research abilities Skills and abilities That frankly aren't stressed enough In high school This was a monumental waste of time I could be out there Helping people We're spending time with my family The protector was coordinating shifts So we could collectively get at least Some education in the meantime On Miss Piki's orders Except this wasn't useful This wasn't applicable to the ongoing crisis Right here, right now in the city Cooped up in a PRT conference room Learning stuff that didn't apply to actual field work It was a video game Or a recording of last year's lectures Why couldn't we watch it off in our own hours It was just a hooked up set of priorities For some of the people in charge I think Eidolon expressed a single power But thank you, good question And good lead-in to the next section Of the course we'll be discussing After we wrap up on Trigger Events We're going to be moving on to what we call Outliers Para-humans or para-human-related elements That deviate from the norm Any guesses? Fion, n-bringers? No more I wouldn't suggest no-bug But we can debate on that point later Perhaps a subject for a course piper Sion, yes, n-bringers Yes, we have no reason Our evidence is suspect They gain powers by normal means On other group you may Or may not be familiar with Our PRT terms K-53s Often the monstrous para-humans We'll get into more depth on the subject Like we'll hear I saw a perk up on the term as used Where do cakes come from? There's the patient zero theory That's typically working on the assumption That Sion is a source of these abilities Incoming text it seems From mom Dad's not doing well You may want to come by the hospital Well give me a look As I said, that's how to take a call Mom?
Dennis? How bad is it? As bad as last weekend Worse He's not getting better? No Okay, do you need me there?
I can use my power By the doctor's time to finger Get prepared if there's a crisis No, Dennis It's not the kind of situation They've got him on a respirator And the doctors don't have much hope He's going to be able to breathe without it again And I'm going to find the infection on their own So he's going to die? I'm sorry A few hours days a week? The doctor says it'll be the next few days Hey, mom Listen, I've got to run Come on, bye Dennis Before it's too late I'll try I love you Love you too Not fair Setting back inside the classroom I went over to where Gloria said and touched her shoulder She moved with we as we exited Sorry to pull you away from that Not missing anything I've already taken this class Oh, then where are you here? Me away maybe disbanding My mom suggested that if I wanted to keep being a hero I should consider joining the wards So I'm here checking things out Your leader and director okayed it Are you joining?
I don't know They're willing if I agree to some extra rules and stipulations They'd be putting me on probationary membership Like they did with shadow soccer I came by to get a sense of things See if it'll be worth going through the hassle Instead of going solo I thought maybe I was okay with doing it Until I saw the portraits in the lobby No, I'm not so sure Gallons, no Dean Yeah I know it's Cross I know you guys have rules I understand if you get angry But my dad has leukemia He was a few days into some pretty rigorous treatments When Leviathan came He got hurt when one of the waves hit And some infection got him through the wounds He's had a pretty much no immune system Doesn't have the strength to fight it off You want me to ask my sister to use her power on him? Please Okay Really? But promising anything Like you said, Amy has her rules about taking requests But I'll see if I can convince her Again, no promises Thank you Really? And if you want to pay me back Maybe you'll tell me about Gallons sometime Share some stories I wouldn't get to hear otherwise For sure Everything okay?
Things are okay We pause the video We can tell you guys are ready Alright I'll try Thank you I'll trust you have a reason For this But don't take too long You're on patrol at 2 this afternoon That doesn't allow us much leeway for delays If you want to finish watching Alright Too well He's trying It's hard to be a leader but he's working hard That's my whole problem with the guy He gets on our case about patrols and training and people Working and turns around and says He's not asking us to do anything he's doing himself Except he only sleeps one or two hours a night He barely eats Doesn't need to use a washroom or shower He's got no friends or family here to look after He can afford to work hard He's a freaking robot That robot and he's not really a robot by the way Is doing as much paperwork as the rest of us put together He only exists to do the paperwork he can't do himself Even if he doesn't have to That gets ready for me What are you chilling down with here? Standing up or oh shit No I This did just stare at me After a second her eyes got shiny She willed around and ran down the hallway The hallway folded together Langer reached the end of the two's drive Snapping back to his full life that she passed along it I turned over to a girl I'm sorry It's okay We are all worn down at the end of our ropes And you're worrying about your dad on top of that You get one pass from me One But you better go after that girl and apologize Yeah A real apology You owed up to what you said and did Acknowledge that it wasn't fair of you to say And you promised to do better in the future That probably means you should cut weld some slack Because of his still wants you to Okay Right Okay No go Missy It's me I'm sorry You're a jerk I am I'm the worst jerk You said that in front of Chloe girl too She looks her boyfriend I know She said she understood and that it would be okay But I don't know how true that is For if you get that out and work out how to make it up to her I want to make sure you're okay He was the reason I looked forward to coming here every day Yeah I knew I didn't have a chance with him He was way older, he was rich and handsome He was tank glory girl They were just getting over her breakup Are you starting to patch things up with her for the millionth time? There was never a good time to talk with him one on one Unless we were on patrol together I don't know but I would have said if there had been a chance He liked you He was fond of you Are you lying to me? No, I'm saying he actually enjoyed doing patrols with you Never had an unkind word to say about you He didn't have an unkind word to say about anybody Not exactly true When Picky caught up on the fact that Shattos Doctor was doing solo patrols every night And I just take turns going with her He had a few things to say about Picky and Shattos Doctor He enjoyed your company Missy There were these little signs but I believe it When tryout for you just assigned him up a troll shift with Kidwind Brody just about anyone else It was okay or yes sir When he was with you or me it was great Or he just smiled really wide Like it made his night It sounds dumb when I say it out loud No, I kind of noticed that too I just thought it was wishful thinking He was a good guy and it's sucky You can swear homie Dennis, I'm 13 not eight Okay okay sorry it's shitty of me to snap at you for doing what he would do Glory Girl so much I'd love to go up the road for both y'all Partially for you and she's right You're right, I was am angry The point was this what happened What's happening out there?
I get frustrated and angry when I'm here Because I feel like I should be out on the streets I get pissed off on my mouth and I feel like I should be with my family But I'm with my family and I feel frustrated and helpless Because I can't do anything there It was ticking out on the new guy and he probably doesn't deserve it I miss the old Dennis The guy who picked his sort of rude code name And then asked himself in front of the new zookee And the other people in charge couldn't really make him change it Because it was funny because he like pushing the limits And because he saw it always something new And fun The new Dennis is so angry Now I guess I got why Aren't you angry? But everything that's going on The unfairness of what happens Yeah, but you can't let it consume you If you really don't look well, you don't have to force yourself to get along with him But don't stay like this, don't stay angry Oh, we're kind of sorry if that's involving you It's okay, I'm tougher than I look I'm sorry again for saying what I did You're good people, Missy Wanna go back to class? If you're okay You're back, just in time Classes cancelled, we got trouble There's two more crime scenes like this? Yeah It's the middle of the day, broad daylight On each of the three walls of the older building was a body 20 feet above the ground A flayed corpse, no longer identifiable An obese woman, char completely black Complicating the scene with an old man Is limited to 70 to join the reconnected So that each was joined by a footlong length of chain Nails placed at the chain held in position Occupying the same building as the corpses was a familiar group Trickster, sundancer, and ballistics stood behind the corpses A winged gargoyle creature was clutching to the side of an empty-foid no frame Genesis Pardon the cliché, but this isn't what it looks like I believe you, I've read your file and this isn't your shit Excellent, excellent, I commend you Then we'll be on our way No, but you'll be coming to custody You don't arrest us for any number of other criminal charges we've got waiting And you can't crown us one of your superiors and we'll try to stick us with a blame for this Let us go Whatever happened here, deserve your full attention You should be trying to find and capture the real criminals Chainout here was still alive when we arrived Can't do that You're still suspects, regardless of how this is about deviance from your usual method The shape In the blink of an eye, well-disappeared, and Genesis is hulking for and loomed in this place Well hit the ground hard, ballistic turned up, I'm with a barrage of rubble I said, I went for Genesis, he was interested away when I was told for somewhere else He was snacking into a wall Someone else had a wall bumping, or Genesis, or quarry girl, I couldn't tell I fired on Trickster, but he swapped us, and I was clipped by my own shot Sundancer created her flaming ball and threw it at me, there was nothing I could do but run Unwilling to get my bolts into this mess, I threw a handful of darts at Trickster instead They disappeared amid air, and splinters avoid, and small stones dropped straight out of the air Shout-a-sock him as taking pot shots from the roof of the train bolts But the traveler's body armor made it useless The space between the entrance to compress, leaving me just two steps from nailing him when he swapped me with Vista I rushed in again with the rest of the team joining me Sundancer intercepted us with her orb, then this responded by compassing space around her, shrinking the effect, I crushed up between my hands, not feeling the heat damage, but really as my arms went white-ah Trickster swapped out again, and I stopped trying to tag it, this time was well I narrowly avoided freezing my own teammate, the villain had switched glory girl, and by the time I arrived We were surrounded out, Sundancer and ballistic on one side, Trickster and Genesis blocking her exit I took cover behind some plywood on the ground as Genesis inhaled, following fourth, dark, black, great, paper My impromptu shield wasn't enough to shield everyone, and three of my teammates were on the ground, hopping out I broke the plywood in time, stopping Genesis from shattering it with her next attack Sure spotted by flying away, prepping another smoke blast I reached into my pack and grabbed two sheets of paper, prepared to go after her Oddly, I felt calm.
Wherever else it was, this fight was a refuge from the feeling I was always in the wrong place, doing the wrong thing at the wrong time This, right here, was where I was needed One of the ballistic shots tore through my armor, gashing my side and throwing me to the ground Vista took cover behind a pile of debris, only to have the villain blowin' up on top of her with a chunk of concrete The best of us scattered as Sundancer moved her orb towards us, even from a distance, we could feel the intense heat coming from it Where she was, caught under debris, and she was striving to shrink down and push away It dawned on me that Sundancer and ballistic, at the least, were holding back, hitting any of us would be instant death, now that this made me feel better Meanwhile did our best to hem a man, Genesis, and trickster throwing crap in the way of the smoke blast and be freezing in place of limited movements It was the best we could do to keep them occupied, hoping the others had a handle on the blasters I started firing on ballistic, sprinting, so that I had enough momentum this time to dodge when Trickster swapped us My smart missile was designed so it compressed space and thus amplified charge over time Meaning every shot he dodged, meant the next one was gonna hit harder I can make something like this, which is brilliant Then I go and dismantle my frickin hoverboard to get parts for a project I never even finish Idiot I intercepted ballistic as he went for Vista Unlike him, I had no desire to hold back when I rammed him into the wall repeatedly Agh! Then he grabbed my costume and I realized once more, why I hate fighting villains Glory girl was a blur, disappearing into the skyline His attacker go on ballistic felons with his hands and knees with a grunt Sundancer fortunately seemed out of action as well Pinned to the wall by Fleshette's darts Trickster must have missed them, maybe because Fleshette was directly in the way So Trickster can only directly teleport what he sees? I didn't have time to respond as my gun was teleported from my hand Replaced with a piece of wood A second later my mask cracked on the ground, I'd been teleported again Get down! I ducked as Genesis came barreling towards me, well done her back, jamming a massive pigax hand into her gullet She bled more toxic smoke from every wound Throwing the new guy down on a clocklock or she flew off Give me just enough time to use my laser rifle on her Perform collapsed completely into more smoke Scary given it's non-lethal setting Then again forming new bodies was her power, I hadn't killed her I dodged more power from ballistic as he retreated Moving over to Sundancer to get her free One touch was all it took for him to set one of Fleshette's needles lying into well's eyes Ah fuck!
It takes forever to get my face out right after something like this Trickster's teleportation took place in an enemy group inside the building They were getting away but at least they had less room to move around with the teleporting The rain's going to wash away the evidence if you don't let us go and hurt it, check on the bodies Crime scene techs can't get here in time with the roads like they are And we're not going to allow to touch the evidence anyways Rules? Rules? You shouldn't sweat those things so much Here, I'll help you out Well disappeared and the burning corpse walked to the ground Shit As well to struggle to free himself, I leveled my rifle at Trickster regretting it as soon as I pulled the trigger The impact of my own gunfire threw me into the floor of the building Extremely painful but nothing lethal Nope, up you go The flake corpse appeared in Vista's position The girl had gotten tangled in the loops of wire Then holding the corpse up One way I'm tightening up her under neck to cut her Trickster, what the fuck? Just run for it already He'd win shot the wire around her neck loose Then they dropped a foot before catching on something else Nothing dangerous this time but it was a fair distance of all and I could wind up getting strangled again What are you doing?
You're getting away I kept firing at Vista, getting the wires loose so we could let her down But let's take a shot at us doctor, drive your back and simulate women even in her shadow state Sundowns were fired up at one to get this time GME straight into the water and crittering a steam explosion By the time it clears the balance we're gone Sound off, everyone okay? Alive Same okay I'm all right Back, fucking travelers I just got the message, BRT is on their way, we head back now God, we're from the protectorate, they're handling the case with the bodies We're not to touch it or get involved in any way No wonder what's going on They're saying quiet on the subject Maybe a serial killer? We should focus on what we do now No As far as tonight's patrols Actually sorry but I have one theory Spill it There were two other crime scenes right? Any idea if there were the same number of bodies at each crime scene?
Same number Why? Oh shit, I think I follow Three crime scenes with three bodies each so it would be nine bodies Each killed in some different way, I don't see where a killer would fit in with this Not one killer, nine bodies each for different killers Slaughterhouse nine? That'd be all we needed When it'd be the first time they've provided a location at the wake of an end-bringer event Maybe it's them, then maybe the protectorate figured out that much With the clues they have from the other two scenes, it could be someone or something else Either way it's not our case and not even our leak And we should say as our hands off as we can manage We need to talk about patrols and tonight's duties Oh, is that crunch work? This is due before a patrol And as a young member she has to go with someone Lily?
Quick to make me pay for the snark, huh? That's cool I've been wanting a chance to shoot the shit with this stuff Clockbocker, you and I will handle the night shifts after that Your call if you want to patrol with me or not We can cover different routes and go for a wider air if you'd rather Alright, we'll figure it out Leaving Shadowstalker You're okay with the late night Sofia Yeah, bye In me Special duty tonight You're recruiting Recruiting There's a kid calling himself to chariot Been racing around the city with a powered suit that mustn't move 100 miles an hour Assault finally caught up with him last night Brought him into custody Wound up calling the kid's mom got him to greet to our recruiter You You'll be meeting the kid in his home Why me? Shared interests, you're both thinkers You have the best idea of how he thinks Cool You convince him it'll look great to the guys upstairs Great, pressure Now on to a more serious topic I'm seeing that this seems really disorganized These days I have no problem handling the brunt of the paperwork It gives me a degree of insight into what's going on in the files Don't I'm even mind cleaning up the kitchen and showers here when the janitors are off duty But we really need to communicate Last night Fletchet went on to the patrol and ran into a situation period She should have been briefed on You have turned hostile Sorry, it turned out okay Right, it's okay, it's understandable Given all we're trying to handle But we can't miss out on details and updates on the overall situation The protector would have their hands full With the gang wars between ten years chosen Purity's group and court They're now dealing with a serial killer or serial killers And they're still updating the records So here's what we're going to do I've checked it with Piggot and she's agreed I'm picking up an extra patrol shift And I'll be adjusting your patrol shifts down by 20 minutes Moving them around slightly With a downtime that creates We're going to have meetings like this every day Gives us a chance to talk about our recent patrols Fearous concerns, ideas are I'll just talk Because I'm seeing this trend Where we only see each other in the past while patrolling or in class And some of you are going out with your way to spend time together And hash stuff out Even at the detriment of stuff like school You're talking about class earlier? More or less Not saying it's a bad thing But we have to restructure our schedules Make time for it instead of detracting from an area we need to pay attention to Sure Now about the paperwork you guys have been submitting There's been a few recurring problems Sure, the superhero I take it Yes, kid win Ashling Medina My song's back through here Come sit down Let me get him Tra-raver This is the superhero I told you about Chariot, is it?
Mm-hmm Just give me an idea on a scale of one to ten How interested are you in maybe joining the wards? Tens high? Tens a lot of interest Four Tra-raver The offer Funding Education We do It's good money With room for better money Especially for a tinker like you or me How's that? The guys in charge really want tinker Both because they want us in a position where we won't be making trouble for them And because they want the kind of stuff we can create I'm not giving up my stuff Cripes We're a lot alike Look, I can see your TV, your toaster Chances are you've gone to the train yard or a scrap yard to find some stuff Old batteries, car parts, chains, good metal, whatever He wanted to go to the train yard I told him No Cutting trying to sneak out I get it, been there You're hungry to use your power, but you need resources Work with us, you get funding A lot of funding to put your stuff together I'll show you What's this?
Crystal It's a 3D computer chip Uses light instead of electrical current They're made by this protectorate tinker down in Texas, Luminos So as long as you're in the program, you can put in an order for stuff with the specs you want And this metal threading? Gold? Gold? Gold for maximum conductability That's a camera This would be a power source That part of something with wavelengths and this reason is energy And I'm not getting it, what does this do?
I put the pieces back together and press the button on my phone The drone flew off the table, streaming image to my phone So much effort for a video camera What tax dollars are granted this? Mom, really? You join the wards, you get exactly what you need to reach your full potential as a tinker And anything you make, the PRT buys the rights from you If you're willing to give up that much, you can do well for yourself You're talking money? I'm getting $400 in allowance each month Just to mess around in my workshop, all the materials are paid for Once I turn 18, I make more It automatically transitions to a job with good pay working with a protectorate But he's risking his life He is, but honestly, there's zero way he's going to be able to go out and try out any of the stuff he's made without running into trouble Being a tinker doesn't just make you a target, it makes you a resource So I pretty much every tinker out there is a member of a larger and more powerful team Somebody always wants to control them Then Trevor could just not use his powers Sure, what do you think, chariot?
You think you could keep from using that power of yours and be normal? No! It's a part of you, chariot, a part of how you think, now I'm telling you, this is the best option, the safest Having a team means you're protected, free to do what you need to do I don't want to give up myself to others, it's mine! I get that, really, but it's only being given away in name You still get to use it, you just can't give it away or sell it to others The benefit is that you gain access to all the stuff and plans other PRT tinkers have made You can look at the sort of stuff dragon makes, seriously?
And tell me you're not interested now I'm, I'm not interested They can't force you to join, but they do want you on the team and there's no negotiating If you're trying to hold back or trying to fake like you don't want to join when you do You're just wasting your time and mine I'm not, it's only, this is a big deal It is, so take my card, call me if you have any questions or if you want me to pass on word that you're joining the team Talk it over with your mom, get back to us Thank you Not a problem, it'd be good to talk shop with someone else that gets this stuff Something's off with this scenario I said the hover came up to the third floor, checked in the windows with the apartment would be Console? Well clear Do me a favor, call everyone back to the base for a quick meeting and maybe call Pigot? Don't cross the L line, right? I got the message the last time I came this night I plugged the string twice, Harry and slashed out from a nearby alley A 9 foot tall rabbit, a few feet behind her It's cute Hi Vista, hi Flushut Hey, we come here and gifts?
My power will be off pretty soon, so get the bags and we're safe before then It's basic stuff, but it'll hold you for a little while Thank you How are you managing? Some kids came through around noon, roughed up the mother of one of my friends I told you to call me if there was trouble I handled it, kind of I think they were more hungry than dangerous, not enough food going around Oh, that makes me sound like I'm blaming you guys No, you're right, we're not doing a good job getting supplies to everyone Anytime we try to distribute it, a group like Hook Wall's gang or the merchants try to seize it Oh, I'm supposed we're lucky to have this haven then here So far, I don't know how long before someone I can't scare off comes through You have my number Well, dear, good winhings, something to report Ask everyone to come in, can you make it back here quickly? Okay, what wants us packing some? I'll see you later I'll stop by later, unless I end up with the trolls for the night I look forward to it, here Perien handed me a stuff rabbit made in the last minute or so using her power I would have been delighted with the gift, where I pour yours younger Thank you, Perien Let's go Back to headquarters, back to headquarters Come on, we'll take my shortcut, across that picture over there Whoa, this is disorienting My power gives me a grasp of angles and I'm worried I might have a seizure But trying to use to get a sense of what's happening here It's not that complicated Everything's like what, Clay, and I'm just smudging it around Ah, you're a powerful kiddo Kinda You could be one of the top dogs in the protector at five or six more years They said the same thing about dauntless One of the protector members who got killed, if I remember right That's unexpectedly dark, coming from you Where did that come from?
What we do is dangerous, sometimes we die I don't see why I should worry about what happens five years from now when I might not even be here Are you having second thoughts about being on the team? No, not on the slightest But if you're concerned about risking your life I didn't say I was concerned, just that hey, it might happen I'm being realistic I can't tell if you're being amazingly mature about the topic of death Or if I should be really concerned about you Amazingly mature? You know what I mean Yes, because any maturity on my part is something special Doesn't matter that I have my months of seniority over Can with being 13 means everyone expects me to be squealing over boy band or dystopian novels Or dressing in pink or my train of thought Stopped out on the porch with some wall Two pictures, black and white, bordered by black frames Eaches and gowns in their first weeks on the team I don't look so young He'd still been when the title wave came from his chest I looked over at my own colorful smiley picture I hated it even more now It was everything I didn't want people to remember about me You okay? I'm fine Let's go, well, tweeting Thank you for being wrong Can you win?
Here's the deal guys I went out to talk to Chariot and there's a bit of a complication He hasn't yet agreed to join the team There's plenty of evidence that he fully intends to join as a mole for an unknown party This evidence was assumed he was a legal mess, of course Of course We believe this unknown party is coiled There's no other criminals in town that would really do this Veterans chosen aren't that subtle And there's no way in hell they would recruit anyone who would look like Chariot Purity's group is, again, racist The undersiders are well-funded enough And it doesn't fit the Traveler's MO That and their own parkcases are coiled using on the co-operators Prior cases? This doesn't leave this room We know there are three ages employed in this very building who are working for Coig Seriously? Is it right now? Yes, we might have gone entirely unaware But Dragon found that one face on a security camera footage matched up with that of an old soldier of fortune Very much in time, Coig would employ It was agreed that it would be ideal to keep those mercenaries employed here It allows us to keep close eye on our foreknowledge with use I would like to do the very same thing here, Chariot He would work alongside you, socialize with you And you would pretend to not know that he's passing on information For that, the risk for the risk he would be undertaking I require his fresh mission Killing with the relationships between team members is difficult enough to begin with I wouldn't ask you to do it if I didn't tell you could handle it I have no problem with it but I have no secret identity No friends or family here to watch out for I totally 100% understand if anyone else has objections Not a vocal or long term member of the team here My vote probably shouldn't count but I'm okay with it if it's what the PRT needs to do Good, interesting Very well This is messed up and I'll roll with it Well that's one more baddie knowing Uh, fine, but he's a tinker, you might be able to figure out he's being watched It's mainly true But I have a sheriff's from Dragon that the programs and devices she has put together are sufficiently discreet Trust me when I say I will find someone to make it up to you And kid win, good work It's really freaking creepy when Katie acts human Alright, guys, we need to be ready with his response in case Chariot replies This job, you could look like you could clean up after the fight Come see me when you're done Most of the drag blood came off easily enough That just left the pink lines and discolored bruises everywhere They're older injuries, too The enchoid scar occurred to Steve Hookwolf being the most notable During the fight, it kept quiet about it out of a desperate need to shake the label of being a team baby It would have been embarrassing to ask for medical attention only for it to be a scratch I'd stitch it out myself up here in the showers Not the most compact, competent job in the end It kind of regarded that series of decisions now When I did eventually have this sort of cleavage to show off That scar would be there playing this day It might even be worse when that time came The part of me took a pervert's kind of pride in the storm Why stress about a mark on my chest when some villain could kill me before it became an issue Well, you wanted to talk to me?
I sent Fluchet on patrol with you because she's got an objective purpose, a perspective on a team And I wanted to see if her thoughts on you echoed my own You were only out for a short while and she's already expressing concerns Tell me up straight, are you doing okay? People keep asking me that, I'm fine Fluchet said you were sounding pretty fatalistic when you were on patrol A little while ago I know you were fond of Gallanton, now you're acting like nothing thazes you I have to know Missy, do you have a death wish? No, no, you saw me against the Travelers, I don't think I did anything stupid there As a member of this team, carry on the memory, act like they would want me to act I can wear twice as hard and be twice as tough, twice as strong If it means waking up with them being gone That's pretty crazy, burden, can be shouldering I can deal Maybe, maybe not You know what I think? I think you should let a teammate seek some responsibility there Trust them to carry on the legacy Nobody else seems to care as much Stop, I don't know enough about ages or Gallanton to say sure But I think maybe clockwalkers stepping up to become more of a leader In ages as absence It could be part of why there's friction between him and me Even if he doesn't fully realize it The impression I picked up is that ages was the head of a team Gallant maybe was the heart The guy who tied you all together Wanna be wrong assuming he was the one who handled Sofia best?
Okay, I have one suggestion in two orders My suggestion? Stop trying to be everything they were Be what you're good at This is carrying sweet young woman who everyone on the team likes You have it in you to fill out some of that void Gallant left Be the team's heart Am I orders? Order number one is that you go CPRT's Therapist I'm honestly kind of flabbergasted that nobody higher up than me has mandated already Order number two is to let yourself cry, dammit Stop and look it back I've cried enough If your body wants to cry, then you should listen to it It doesn't make you any weaker if it let it happen, trust me The tears are rolling down her cheeks now She pressed her face against my shirt I'm always here to talk And the therapist will be there too If you need a break from the team just say the word No, I want to work I want to help Okay Then we've got control in Two hours and fifteen minutes Go relax, watch some TV, maybe take a nap All right, don't you dare let me sleep through patrol I wouldn't Holy crap You've been crying again I thought you were over that I was venting a little bit well What's your issue Sofia? I just really hate crybabies Bitch You annoy him, you know Well, you don't know Gallant Twelve-year-old following him around all the time And he can fill out her emotions You know how gross that would be?
Every time he crushed on him, he felt it Pour some sort of smile and play nice as you totally repulsed him Because he was that kind of guy I loved him, there's nothing gross about love You don't know what love is, little one It was a first crush Oh, little infatuation I know it sucks to hear now But it's better to hear it straight than we'd back and realize how poorly stupid you sounded I'm not going to go stupid for how I feel now Hm, kids What happened to you, Sofia? What kind of situation led to you becoming like this? So casually cruel, so lacking in basic human decency My advice is for your own benefit, right? I'm not the bad guy You're the only one who doesn't have any friends on the team You only talk with friends from your civilian life Even there and always in trouble Getting suspended, picking fights Not your business I've been costume, you're scary You hurt people, like you're hungry for it I just want to know why Where did you come from?
What situation led to you being like this? You're off the fucking subject, you're irritating me If you ever do want to talk about it, I'm willing to listen I'm not about to talk about it with you Fix your own shit before you start worrying about me crying baby You, I pity you Sofia brushed me Dropping out of her shadow state and time to throw me on my back Pity, who welds and it takes a kind of strength to face your emotions Are you really that scared Sofia that you'd attack me instead of talk to me? The security cameras are watching us right now I'm going on patrol It's not your shift Don't fucking care If well-asked I'm doing a double shift Okay, I guess I'm ending the console Hillside Mall, downtown I hope to run into some looters I'd had some luck earlier in a week at this spot But it's seen that the police force of a station that's entrance is now Guess I'll find other ways to entertain myself for the moment Emma, what's new? Hey, superhero How's Portland?
Good food, good shopping, boring as hell I wish I could come back Hang out I wish you to come back too These morons are fucking pissing me off I'm not getting enough breaks from me I don't have the patience for this It's morons, the warts? The children, sure, some of them are older Some have more time in the field than me Maybe But they're still children living in their comfortable, cozy little worlds I don't know if you think the city is like now I saw some on the news Right, damaged, destroyed, fucked up This is a place those kids visit And they're still convinced they can fix it I've lived with this all my life Way to do this shit from the beginning I'm not deluding themselves, so yeah They're immature, new to this And I don't know how long I can fucking put up with them Two and a half more years, right? Then you're out of your probation Free to do your thing Don't remind me Makes me ride a knife and a half way through it I can't believe it's already been this long Constantly hearing them bitch about dating or clothes or allowances And every time I hear it's like I wanna scream in the face Fuck you, you little shit Shut the fuck up I've killed people and then I've washed the blood off my hands I went to school and I acted normal the next day I remember If it weren't for all the crying and complaining I would almost be glad I would have attacked the city Tear away that fucking ridiculous manure that covers everything Get rid of those fucking fake smiles and social niceties And daily routines that everyone hides behind Yeah? Yeah, buy them or be able to Desperate, needy, animal with the core of everyone in his seat He made things honest Most are victims Sheep, holding together for security and numbers Or rat hiding in the shadows Of wanting attention Others are predators Going in on offensive Taking what they needed through violence or manipulation I don't care what category people fall into So long they didn't get in my way like Grew has a habit of doing Worse air those in town irritating me by being lame and depressing Like Vista or Taylor The rest, I'm okay if they just know they're a goddamn place There are some predators I like having around as well You go a long way towards making life out of costume tolerable And direct, they're a pig and of course Who keeps me out of the bird cage because I fit so well into a woman's illusion of a working system Like I said, there's a need for people like us Someone will step on others to get to the top Do what's necessary, keep the wheels spinning Something's going on Truck's pulling in You wanna see if it leaves anything interesting Call back when you're done Give me the recap Right It was five minutes before trouble arrived It was Menja that made the first move She drove out again experience of the engine Block of the lead truck flipping over Miss militia was climbing up out of leads Passenger truck in an instant Hepting a Renee launcher Hook Wolf Storm Tiger and Cricket all joined the fray Followed by their foot soldiers On a PRT site The truck's emptied of PRT troops and one more cape Assault Time for some fun Cricket was down on the second bolt Good The woman's right on my fine me outside of my shadow state Knowing how the other cakes fought My bolts wouldn't work on them Time to clean up some skinheads Another fucking cape Get on Then rears chosen They caught themselves Wearing white face painting a crude approximation of a wolf's face As a tougher leading thugs began falling The rest started scattering Cowards Get back here or off As he collapsed backwards Miss malicious guns shimmered Spit Split and transported to a pair of assault rifles Rubber bullets Most likely Shame More of the skinheads moved to flank Giving me the perfect opportunity to rush in and crack themselves Suddenly one of them began thrashing Is if he wasn't in control of his own body anymore Then another figure stepped out of the alleyway closest to them A girl Skinny but not an attractive way Spinly The lenses of her mask caught the moonlight Flashing up hell yellow Skitter That is that The bugs girl swore and moved over the chosen Almost obscuring them from view The bug girl drew a night stick and dispatched on one by one The cloud of bugs The cloud of bugs swept over the van And after a moment skitter emerged carrying a bag of supplies Hungry are you?
You saw my face Records say you've got no team Now Operating solo means and there's nobody to miss you My still arrow heads glinted in the moonlight 100 fucking percent of these I entered the shadow state and moved further across the rooftop Only to feel the group of flying insects passed through my body A fraction of a second later Skitter was running, abandoning the bag disappearing around the corner She was waiting as I jumped down The bug girl sent a mass of insects out to the tech Slowing me down, maybe pushing me back a little if there were enough When the first assault was done The residual bugs threw me off Slow down my power as I expelled them It wasn't enough for her to get away Skitter went down And I almost fired as the baton lashed out I went shadowing and didn't bother getting back The girl was powerless here You really wanna fight me? Oh, nothing to say It was then that I noticed a pepper spray in her left hand As it came out I shielded myself and went shadowed as she fled Good runner, but I'm faster Skitter was going up the steps of a fire escape I fired a boat A girl ducked and the shock slipped the railing instead She climbed over and leaped a half story down to the pavement Putting a chain link fence and some accumulated trash bag swinging herself in me As if that was not one of my bolts Suspicious, I activated my thermal lenses The fence was lit up With a wire leading away from it Electrification The one thing that could hurt me in my shadow state Fuck her I took her rooftop route as the bug girl hidden in the swarm Hourly mattered At the same end of the boat fire The swarm parted too One was a decoy Just a swam in a vaguely human shape Uncaring, I loaded both crossroads and shot a swarm with each One slow began the top one I lunged in and kicked only to feel nothing but bugs A strike The swarm slid again Four of them this time I closed the line before the first and throw Felt to hit anything solid My bolts passed through the other two I made contact on the last Drove the bug girl's face down into the water Game over you little freak Nothing to say No last words No begging of fucking apologies Guess I don't need to worry about the villain who saw my face now Irritating The fabric didn't cut No other way to make this look inconspicuous The darkness swept over me Groove's darkness The bitch hated me I wasn't taking enough air inside of it Couldn't fool the end of my shadow state Bugs were piling in rapidly to stop me from going solid again And then two heavy things piled on me and threw me to the ground My hands seized up as I went from my crossroads No longer under my control The darkness left And I saw who I was up against Hail, hound, hail, and metal ring in each hand To where her monstrous dogs on each Groove stood to her left Arms folded A guard didn't recognize just stood behind them Wearing a black scarf and a horn mask Rounding a group of tattle tail Regent and skitter The bug girl walked out to me and said me dead in the eyes Oh, any reason's taser scepter All that drama All that nonsense about allegiance is betraying your team Was it a trick? Some joke? Well, how wonderfully fucking nice of you That you guys patched things up You even have a new member Congratulations I guess everything's back to normal for you freaks No, things are different now Skitter, with your legs Regent, support, midsection Yup, give me a hand to your upper body Take the other shoulder We lift up real, right?
Right One, two, three Hey everyone, thanks for listening We are back this year And as you might have been able to tell from this broadcast We've got some new recruits Jeff for reference, I'm Matt And I played clock rock blocker Brian and trickster in this episode As well as adapting it to the radio format Hi, I'm Jay, I played Sophia Piggett, or Pigo And Richard Jay Hi, I'm Carly And I played Flashat and Sundancer Hey, I'm Martin and I played Vista and Hiller Hey, I'm Ben I played mostly kid winning this episode And also a little bit of Alec Regent and Hookwell Hi, I'm Marika And I played Glory Girl Perion and Emma Hi, I'm Reaver And then I played Welts and Sheriot And that weird professor guy Thank you so much for listening And we'll see you next week Have a good six week