The Good, The Bad and The Spandex II

It had been a whole month since the last crisis struck the city of Easton, USA. Mayor Major (yes that's really his name) was very happy about it.

The afternoon was nice, especially over at the Mall. As Malls go, Easton's was nothing unusual- not too fancy, not too small. Just about right for the city.

Inside, it was business as usual. People coming and going, shopping, window-shopping, eating, talking, or just taking a break.

But there was one shop that was curiously closed. An old watchmaker's shop. It closed long ago; nobody paid it attention anymore.

But this store had secrets. Like a secret door leading down a flight of stairs, which in turn led to a basement, currently in total darkness and dead silent.

For a moment, nothing happened.

Then something began to hum.

Lights began to blink on in some kind of control panel.

A TV screen showed what looked like bio-rhythms. At first, they were flat- but then, they began to spike.

In the darkness, figures began to stir. Suddenly, their eyes lit.

-COMBAT PROGRAMMING ACTIVATED.

-TARGETS: UNDEFINED.

The figures got off the slabs they were on, and proceeded up the stairs. They found the door, but instead of opening it, they pounded on it until it fell down with a crash.

The figures, wearing brown full-body suits, stepped out, over a dozen of them. They looked around.

Suddenly, they spotted people walking by through the store's glass windows.

TARGETS ACQUIRED.

They then pulled guns out of their holsters, marched straight toward the windows and CRASH! bursted suddenly out!

BLAM BLAM!! they began shooting randomly at everything that moved. EEEEEE!!! people screamed and began to run away in a panic.

A couple of mall cops ran over, gasped, and began to shoot back, to little effect.

One of them went for his radio: "EPD! This is Robertson, from the Easton Mall! We have a shooting going on! Some unidentified costumed men BLAM ARRGH!!!"

edited 16th Nov '17 4:41:11 PM by Sijo

Thomas + Selby Mechanics

In the back rooms of the slightly dilapidated shop, a teen with blue hair and equally blue eyes sat hunched on a pile of sheets and pillows, fiddling with a device. The TV was whirring in the background on a random channel.

The door to his room suddenly knocked, startling him, before he groggily stood up.

"Coming," he muttered, half dragging himself over to the door.

He fumbled with a small fingerprint scanner before the door finally clicked open, revealing a red haired young woman who was standing with an urgent expression. She gestured towards a small, watch like device on her wrist, which was beeping erratically.

He sleepily blinked.

"Kaylee?"

"We got trouble at the mall, Alex. You better get your suit on."

She made as if to go, before peering closely under his eyes.

"...How much sleep did you get this time?" she asked softly.

He glanced at her, before turning around back into his room, his reply barely audible as a crackling whisper.

"Forty minutes."

Easton City Mall

A tall blue and black suit with a lightning symbol on the chest, presumably with a person inside, ran through the panicking crowds while trying not to crush anyone under its heavy feet. The red haired girl sat on his shoulders, eyeing the attacking robots.

"Do you see 'em, Alex?"

"Yeah. Nice brand recognition."

She snorted at that, before sobering as she heard a child's frightened scream.

"Let's make our entrance, shall we?"

"Gladly."

The nine foot tall mechsuit leapt over the last few pedestrians in its way, stretching out to its full height and glaring down at the robots with its blue lenses. It lifted its left arm, grabbing its passenger, before placing her down. She promptly got into a battle stance, a sharp looking clockwork gear appearing in her hand.

"So. Who's dancing monkeys are you?"

"Yeah, what she said."

edited 18th Nov '17 3:51:57 AM by Enirboreh

Cora hated the mall. Hated the too-bright lights, hated all of the people, hated feeling more invisible than she usually did.

But she needed extra school supplies. The hand-me-downs from Charlotte and Delia had already run out. Her folders were falling apart, her notebooks were full, and her pencils were all down to nubs. Practicality won out over comfort, and at least she had finally saved up enough money at the Moonlight Diner to pay for what she needed.

Her trek through the mall was interrupted by screams, crashes, and gunshots. Cora had enough time to duck into the women’s bathroom and change into her costume, which she had in her backpack.

Strange looking people in brown were firing at the shoppers. They were already being confronted by a giant robot and a steampunk cosplayer. No, that wasn’t fair. It wasn’t like Ember Maiden’s costume was any better.

She was unsure about what to do, at first. Maybe the robot and the cosplayer had everything under control.

But the gunmen had to be stopped from attacking anyone else. Maybe...

She snapped her fingers, and a small fire started on the mall floor.

It trailed around the gunmen, until they were completely surrounded, and the flames grew larger. It was taking all of Ember Maiden’s focus to keep the flames as they were, high enough to be at eye level but perfectly controlled at the same time.

"So, how much is this altogether?" Conan asked.

The man behind the counter puckered his lips together, rubbing his chin. He was sweating a bit, but he had gotten over the shock of seeing a man levitating off the ground fairly easily. He was large and balding, with a pot belly and thick mustache. Overall, a friendly sort of chap.

"The DVD here," he said, tapping a copy of Tengen Toppa Gurren Laggan, "is about $11:00. The BBQ Pringles and Lemonade are about....."

"Let me guess, 17?"

"Hold on boy, we aren't finished just yet. These games of yours," he gestured to the copies of Call of Duty:World War II, Overwatch and Star Wars Battlefront, "they cost at least $60:00 dollars altogether, probably more."

"Shall we run it up?" Conan asked. The man shrugged, mumbling that Conan had better have enough money as he began doing just that. Once that was taken care of, Conan got out his bank card, ran it through and didn't care about the costs. Once it was all in the bag, he bid the man good day and exited the store into the wider part of the mall. Just in time to hear the sounds of gunfire. Still floating and very curious, he began moving along to check it out.

Once he saw what was going on, with the clear threat to civilians, he immediately reacted, getting out his tome, and opening it up to the correct page, licking his lips. They got a bit dry on him there.

Once he found the entry he was looking for, he began chanting. The veil between time and space parted open, green lighting slowly oozing forth as a cascading stupor of melancholy and drunken, dark cackling. Several large, hulking tentacled monstrosities stepped forth out of it, roughly a dozen. Few of them had any faces to speak of, just a mouth on the end of their slimy appendages. Another, this one without a face, covered in skin which was ape like and black as night, a hand looking like a cone dangling on the floor, came forth and cocked its head curiously as the portal closed and reality fixed itself.

"Evacuate the civilians, gently. Establish a perimeter, ensure no one comes into the line of fire."

Without a word, the creatures sprang forth, swarming outwards as the brutes extended their tentacles and began grabbing civilians, gently pulling them away while the faceless ape raised its cone hand to its head, beginning to speak. "All civilians," came the high-pitched voice, "please, evacuate the area. A perimeter is currently being established. All civilians, please...."

In the mean time, Eldtrich gave his bag to the familiar, as he himself began to levitate higher, to see above the flames. He began reading through the book, looking for the appropriate spells.

":...And them, BAM, instant clown make-up" Everyone on their table on the food court laughed. Three boys were just hanging out, like they've always have. A black haired latino boy raised his drinks, toasting for the big redhead's story.

"Nice one, big man" Kyle just nodded, while the redhead jokingly bowed.

"For Billy, great friend and joker extraordinaire" Kyle said and the other boys followed suit.

"Cheers!" They then started wolfing down on their burgers and fries as if they haven't eaten all day.

But their good time was interrupted by the sound of gunfire, Kyle tackled his friends on instinct, but Billy stopped him and quickly realized it came from the first floor.

"Kyle, Fido time" Billy said. Kyle grunted but nodded and a hand went to his hoodie.

"Pablo, Billy Cover me" They nodded as they knocked the table down and stood covering him from the people running. The feeling of his flesh and bones boiling and feeling as if they were was by now familiar to him, and so, a black blur jumped over them and followed the noise and screams.

As the chaos kept unfolding, the armed machines kept causing mayhem and the people still tried to escape as three heroes, when one tried to point its weapon to a woman who fell down during the chaos, but a black mass appeared to take the shot, revealing a huge black wolf-man, several times bigger than the boy it used to be.The armored bodysuit over the beast revealed the crescent moon emblem that identified him. He turned and smiled at the scared woman, who quickly got up and started getting away as Crescent charged and on one quick move ripped the head off the machine with his claws.

"Who's next?" A challenge was spoken to the machines, as he crushed the head on his hand and jumped right over them and the ring of fire, landing on the middle. He just became a huge target, and he'll take them on.

edited 16th Nov '17 7:47:46 PM by Blueace

"... so, I was thinking we could set it up in a few days, so I'll get my suits cleaned up and stuff," Tobias said.

"Sounds good," Ryan said, then gave Tobias one of those grins that made his heart melt a little.

The two were shopping, or more accurately pretending to shop, at the mall. Really, they just liked having the free time to themselves. Just the two of us, Tobias thought. He liked being around Ryan. A lot.

Which is why he got so woried when he heard gunfire.

Tobias immediately turned to Ryan, who had gone pale. "Go," he said to Ryan.

"What, like you're not coming with? C'mon!" Ryan tugged at Toby's arm. Toby leaned in, almost as if going for a kiss, but instead breathed out a multicolor fog that entered Ryan's mouth. Almost immediately Ryan's face went blank. Tobias frowned. He didn't like using his powers on Ryan.

"Go outside. I'll be there shortly." Ryan complied, silently but surely. Eventually he would stop and wait for Toby outside.

Toby took in everything he could see. A few monsters, some aggressive mannequins, some hero-ish people, a ruined mall. Oh well. He stood back and waited, waited for the opportunity to jump in.

The automatons were completely unmoved by anything that went around them. They just walked right through the ring of fire (setting themselves on fire in the process, but not seeming to care) and continued to pick targets to shoot at. Even the destruction of their fellows did not distract them from their grim mission.

Since most people on the Mall had by now been evacuated (or were hiding in shops) most of the targets were now heroes, and they concentrated their shots on them.

Meanwhile, outside, police patrols began to arrive. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, there's monsters now too!?" one cop shouted at his radio. He swore something under his breath about life in Easton, then gave orders to his men, "OK, go in there and SHOOT at anything that isn't human!!"

edited 16th Nov '17 8:04:43 PM by Sijo

Ember Maiden watched in horror as the gunmen walked through the fire, the heat slowly melting away their outsides. She let the ring of fire go out, leaving only the scorched floor and the flaming robots.

“Fire won’t stop them,” she shouted to no one in particular. “Anyone have any other ideas?”

How many were there? It seemed like dozens, but everything was so overwhelming it was hard to be sure.

Eldtrich held out his hand, emitting a sickly green gas which began to convulse and twist itself together, forming into a large shield made of flesh and bone, absorbing the bullets fire power.

With most of the civilians successfully evacuated, he snapped his fingers. His familiars stopped, and, as one instead turned and began barreling straight for the machines. The cone handed one began walking over, stopped, and, cone ready, shrieked, sending a blast of green lighting, oozing some kind of liquid, at the machines, slamming into one and melting its outer casing, before slithering out of it and arching through the air into another. The familiars had made a triangle formation as they collided head on with the machines, screeching and roaring as they struck out with tentacles, arms, hands and other appendages.

Interested in where the flames had come from, Eldtrich initiated a divination spell, to properly learn what it was.

Hmm..... otherworldly.....slight traces of fairy magic....no clear source, obviously....wait, no she's right there. Ah, she's adorable!

Really, that's what Eldtrich thought when he saw the young woman he guessed as being responsible for the flames. She looked utterly adorable! He would have to speak with her later about her powers and how she got them, but first, wiping out these machines.

He now saw a wolf man had joined the battle, and presumably some other heroes as well....

Most fortunate so many were here at the moment the machines showed up, really. Still, better bring in some more help.

Chanting, two shimmers began to take shape, forming into slim, feminine creatures which had massive blades for limbs and no jaws, wings mixed between a bat and an insect holding them afloat. They had no lower jaw, simply a gaping wide mouth from which long, triple splinted tongues hung out, barbed with fangs. "Destroy," Eldtrich ordered, and both creatures flew downwards, slicing and ripping into the machines.

"They!" Kick one in half "Are!" Claw through another "Machines" Imitate a rhino and charge through a bunch.

"Can anybody fry their circuits?" He yelled out.

Easton Mall

Rebecca sat alone in the corner of the food court, contendedly munching on her lunch. It had been a while since she had eaten out like this, due to... extenuating circumstances. But hey, she couldn’t shut herself off from the world forever, and they couldn’t kick her out for her odor if she wasn’t actually in a restaurant. Probably.

This... what did you call it? Cow stone? It’s really good!

Speaking of extenuating circumstances...

“Calzone. And I told you we’d like it. I know my taste buds better than anyone, don’t I?”

Well, yeah, but... hey, what’s going on over there?

And she was changing the subject. Rebecca sighed. For a millenia old goddess, her headmate acted more like a child than anything.

Wait. What was going on over there? There seemed to be quite the panic. And were those mannequins with guns? Glad she had decided to wear her costume under her street clothes today (changing was always such a hassle), Rebecca shed her outer layers and rushed to the scene.

Pollutrix was unsurprised at the gaggle of heroes already on the scene. This was Easton, after all; nothing significant happened without a small army of supers turning up. A quick headcount turned up a robot with some gear chick on its shoulder, a teenager who appeared to have some sort of fire powers, a werewolf, some kind of wizard, and a gaggle of monsters. They honestly seemed to have things pretty much under control, but she had gone to the trouble of getting in costume, so she might as well help.

Trash came to her from trash cans, litter, wherever her powers could reach, as she pelted the mannequins with it. As she did so, she also grabbed any nearby mannequins, encrusting them in filth and hopefully preventing them from moving.

"I do like the roman numerals on this one. Makes it look all antique and fancy." Charlie had decided to go watch shopping and/or stealing today. It was always a toss-up whether he'd pay for anything, really. Mostly depending on how observant the sales associate was. Petty thievery was one of his more common crimes, even if they never could connect any of it back to him. Shapeshifting was neat that way.

"Yes, it's quite a classical look. Very fashionable these days." The saleswoman agreed, nodding her head and barely managing to not call him a sucker. He knew she was thinking it - shit like this was always overpriced. And it looked like he was paying that unfair price, since she unfortunately was watching him like a hawk.

Then the gunfire started, followed shortly by the screaming.

"Oh my god." The saleswoman rushed over to the entrance of the jeweler's and stared out at the ring of fire that had sprung up, along with assorted customers.

Then they all started screaming and running. Leaving him in the store. Alone.

Charlie repressed a laugh. God, he loved it when other Supervillains started shit before he did. Smiling to himself, he strode over to a cabinet full of expensive rings and smashed it open with a casual swing of his hand. He quickly stuffed his pockets, somehow managing to fit everything in. Since his clothes were really just him, he absorbed the haul into his body mass.

An anti-theft alarm was blaring, but there was no one to hear it with all the commotion going on. Charlie sprinted out of the store at a normal human pace, pretending to look panicked at the chaos going on.

Today was a good day.

The sound of an alarm caught Eldtrich's attention only briefly, as he had to focus on defeating this cursed machines. To hopefully better coordinate with the other heroes-

What in the world is that?

He stopped, and turned, scanning the area, before his eyes settled on a filthy yet still rather beautiful woman. He drank in her form....and narrowed is eyes as he observed the.....rather old entity inside her. Curious. Very curious indeed. He would have to investigate this.

Floating over to the woman, he cleared his throat. "Pardon me, but I couldn't help but notice you're emitting some sort is aura...a rather filthy one. I would much like to speak with you about it after this is all over, however, I have an idea. I need to project my astral self to locate the source of these machines, but that would leave my body exposed. Please do guard me, won't you? Afterwards, I'll even let you have some of my Pringles, maybe play a video game on my PS 4."

Easton Mall

Pollutrix was momentarily distracted from fighting the mannequins when the wizard addressed her. It was a little concerning how perceptive he was, but it wasn’t like she had anything to hide, and she couldn’t help but chuckle at his offer. She opened her mouth to speak, when:

Hey, he noticed me!

“This is not the time. Sorry, not you. I’d be more than happy to defend you, and even answer a few questions, but I’m gonna have to take a hard pass on the Pringles and gaming.”

Aww, but it sounds like fun....

“It sounds super awkward. Sorry, not you again.”

edited 16th Nov '17 10:17:50 PM by PossiblyQuiteInsane

Preston sat in the middle of the food court, intermittently solving Algebra exercises between bites of burrito. Let's see here, expand this polynomial, solve for x, and yep, looks like I've got it He was so absorbed in his homework that it took him a while to notice that there were what appeared to be robots shooting up the mall. And a group of heroes were already dealing with them, it seemed.

"Shoot, shoot, shoot, alright let me just put this away", he said as he quickly shoved his homework into his bag and then seemed to disappear for a minute and then reappear wearing a Magician's outfit.

Ok, let's see what I've missed so far. Wait a minute, is that a werewolf? And some Lovecraftian horrors? Man, I've gotta find a team soon, there's so many other awesome heroes out there. Maybe they can reveal some paranormal secrets to me.

Presto decided to stop wasting time and actually get on with the fight, removing his hat from his head, and pulling out what looked like a prop sword before slowly levitating toward the fray. He projects an image of himself in front of one of the robots before slicing it in half from behind with his surprisingly sharp sword.

He turned toward the other group of heroes, specifically the werewolf and the Lovecraftian guy and said "Um, hey, I'm not the most combat-savvy hero. Does anyone want to team up on these guys? I make a pretty good distraction."

edited 16th Nov '17 10:19:08 PM by TricksterCal

Easton City Mall

Kaylee had to shield herself with a swiftly generated gear to protect from the intensity of the flames. Once they died down, she looked over Ember Maiden, then up at Alex incredulously.

"Seriously? That did nothing. Figures. I doubt flinging shuri-gears is gonna be much help either. Alex, if you would be a dear...?" she grinned.

If there wasn't a full face mask blocking her view, she would have seen him grin back.

She would have also seen him blushing at her 'dear' comment, which was why he was thankful for making this thing hide his face.

*ahem* "Everyone, I would suggest getting out the way a little."

Kaylee swiftly hid behind the leg of the suit.

That was the only warning the robots got.

Alex clasped the hands of his suit together, feeling it tremble violently as volts of electricity passed through it. The lightning symbol on the chest glowed, and he raised his hands towards the robots.

"..."

"...Aren't you... gonna say a cool line?" Kaylee called from behind his suit's leg.

"...Nah."

And with that, a large stream of lightning violently erupted from the hands of the suit towards the robots, knocking out a couple of lights in the process from a few stray bolts.

edited 17th Nov '17 4:48:03 AM by Enirboreh

Suddenly an idea came to Tobias as the police swarmed in. He grinned devilishly, then put on his best 'panicking civilian' look. He rushed towards the first policeman, making sure to look as non-shootable as possible.

"Son, you need to-" the policeman started as Tobias got closer. Then Tobias breathed out his smoke, and the policeman's face went blank.

"Shoot..." Tobias looked around for a target. The way he saw it, with all civilians except for him evacuated, the only threat was towards the hero people. And they could probably handle themselves. So....

"Shoot at that wolf man." At this point it was more to see what would happen then any malevolent intent. Plus the wolf man didn't look especially friendly. Of course, neither did the guy summoning abominations all over the place, but whatever.

The policeman muttered, "Shoot at the wolf man." Then, louder and with more emotion, "Men! Shoot at the wolf man!" They opened fire. Tobias grinned, then put back on his 'panicking civilian' face and ran towards some isolated corner.

This day just keeps getting wilder Things were getting increasingly out of hand. Several beasts of nightmare, a stage magician and a girl whose smell nearly makes him faint entered the fight. With a kick, he sent another minion flying to a group, before lunging at them, tearing them apart with his fangs. As he got up, he ran in front of the magician, and took two more of them that got too close.

Everything was getting better until....

"Hey, knock it off!" He snarled at the cops that started to shoot at him, before giving them his best intimidating face, sending a few of them running. He chuckled, being scary has its perks sometimes.

Ember Maiden caught sight of the cops firing at them. She swept her hand across the air, sending out a wave of flames. Hopefully, it would be enough to vaporize the bullets before they hit anyone.

This was getting increasingly out of hand. They needed a strategy or a leader or both, or they would end up destroying the mall and getting themselves killed.

Until then, she would just keep throwing fireballs at them. The robots had to melt sooner or later, and at the very least she could destroy their guns.

“Are you alright?” she shouted at the wolf man.

The Easton policemen were already shooting at the utterly bizarre monsters when the Smoke made them fire at the werewolf as well (they probably would have done it anyway.)

They were also shooting at the (by now obvious) robots, to no effect. They did not shoot at anyone who looked human (including the villains in their midst) but then Ember Maiden intervened.

"Hey what's the big idea, are you part of this??" the police captain shouted angrily.

Eldtrich smirked at the girl. She must think she looked crazy to him. "Don't worry, I know what's going on. Now, if you will excuse me, I have some astral projection to do. Still, for added protection...." Sadly, he had to ignore the young man in the magician outfit for now, as this required his utmost focus. However, he did give him a glance that said he would like to speak with him....he just couldn't right now.

Muttering quietly, another portal opened, through which came a massive, hulking brute, walking on his knuckles, with a pair of short stumpy legs. He was dressed like a butler, his clothing shredded, and his head was covered in eyes, with a bowler hate perched on top. "What seems to be the trouble, master Conan?"

"Nothing much, I simply need you to help protect me against any threats while I use some astral projection to investigate where these machines are coming from. Do be careful not to kill anyone, Fr'ider'ck."

"Yes, master Conan. Have a pleasant trip." With that, Fr'ider'ck turned around and took up a defensive stance, scanning for any threats.

Conan took in a deep breath, closing his eyes. When he opened them again, they had turned a dull green color, as did his skin. He was chanting slowly, and kept doing so as he left his body behind. Drifting into the incorporeal plane was one of the singular most interesting things once could ever do, but Conan didn't have time to focus on that right now. He turned to where the girl was....or rather, where she should be. Instead of that, he saw something.....well, it was female, that was for sure, but it also seemed a bit dirty. Nonetheless, he politely smiled at her, and then proceeded on his way, floating quickly through the machines as he followed them to where they were coming from.

Hmm...an old watch shop.....better look deeper into this.... And so he drifted inside, past the robots as he descended downstairs.

Meanwhile, Fr'ider'ck was watching everything get really out of hand. He sighed. "Oh dear, master will not like this when he comes back. I say, is there a telepath anywhere you could restrain those humans? The ones with the guns? They don't seem to be in their right mind."

The other beasts mainly shrugged off the bullets for the most part, however, cone hand was struck, badly, and whimpered, being forced to retreat into the nether realms, the lightning disappearing with him. The winged creatures were eloquently dodging the bullet fire as best they could while Fr'ider'ck, resigned, held up his arm, another growing right beneath it to help provide cover for himself and the prone form of his master.

edited 17th Nov '17 11:44:35 AM by Vampireandthen

Easton City Mall

Kaylee yelped as a stray bullet nicked her hair, watching wide-eyed as it was harmlessly deflected off of one of the robots.

"Piss. Those cops aren't in their right minds, Alex. I quite like my innards where they are. Mind if I hitch a ride?" she asked, only barely hiding her scared tone.

The suit grunted, picking her up again. He turned around with his back facing their opponents, letting the front of the suit collapse away with a hiss to reveal a mechanical, yet somewhat padded interior. There was barely room for two people, but Kaylee managed to squeeze in nonetheless, sharing a grateful look at the teen pilot.

"Why is it the most basic situation turns into a complete mess in seconds?" Alex muttered under his breath, turning around and beginning to charge up again.

"Right, let's see how you like round two!" he yelled, sending another arc of electricity towards the army of robots.

Crap, she's really close... don'tthinkaboutitdon'tthinkaboutitdon'tthinkaboutit...

edited 17th Nov '17 12:02:40 PM by Enirboreh

While the androids took a lot of damage, they kept going on with their mechanical innards showing like robot zombies, attacking everyone regardless of how effective they were.

It was the electrical blasts that finally began affecting them: those struct convulsed as if having seizures, sparked like livewires, and then fell down on the mall floor, unmoving.

There were still like, a dozen of them left however, and bullets kept coming from both sides and ricocheting in all directions.

edited 17th Nov '17 2:58:10 PM by Sijo

"I'll live" He said to the fire girl. "Can the Easton's dumbest stop shooting me? I am on your side!" Crescent just shook his head and decided to just finish this, he has been shot just too many times today. Moving nearly too fast to follow, ripped one in half, before impacting his knee on the chest of another hard enough to make it malfunction, before using it to block another's shots and tossed it, sending both to the floor, ending them by jumping and landing in them.

Easton Mall

Rebecca simply smirked at the wizard when he said he “knew what was going on”. She had no doubt he had detected the goddess inside of her, but there was no way he knew the details of the 24/7 babysitting job she’d gotten stuck with.

Meanwhile, the Goddess responded to the polite smile of his astral form with a giggle and a wave. It had been a very long time since anyone had seen her in person... maybe she should look into projecting herself outside of Rebecca.

Pollutrix continued to fight the mannequins to unfortunately little effect, registering that the police were shooting but content that they weren’t shooting at her, somehow missing the fact that they were targeting her fellow heroes.

Then the robot guy actually managed to take out a fair chunk of the mannequins.

“Nice job, metal guy!”

Well. That was new. Apparently her headmate had figured out how to speak from her mouth. But with a little girl’s voice. It was a bizarre dissonance.

“I don’t know how you did that, but don’t do it again without asking.”

edited 17th Nov '17 10:14:53 PM by PossiblyQuiteInsane