We reported the incident and turned over the bodies to the
Department of Superhuman Affairs. As usual, I acted as the spokesperson when
the authorities came to the scene. Agents from the DSA came out personally to
speak to us, and their questioning always took longer than it probably needed
to.
Saturday, August 18, 2018
32 : Shoggoth
Previous
Hitchhiker appeared in our midst a quarter of a second
before a massive explosion obliterated the farmhouse in the distance. From our
vantage point tucked away behind the tall grass, with a line of trees in the
way, we didn’t see the structure itself shatter, but a small mushroom cloud
bloomed where it had been. James already had his hand up, deflecting the
shockwave, and the debris it carried, to go around us.
31 : Hitchhiker
Previous
“Hey!” said James, looking at Strider disapprovingly. “That
was it!”
We were now standing in the middle of a field of wild wheat,
a wide circle having been cleared away for us to stand in.
“They’re beneath the farm, in a fortified structure,” she
said. “I sensed a lot of wires around, so I figured they probably had security
cameras set up.”
30 : Strider
Previous
Megan’s house was the “slab home” type, so it didn’t have a
basement, enabling me to use my power on her floor. I’d teleported us to
another park a couple blocks away, partially hidden between a cluster of trees.
Hitchhiker fell on her ass, but managed to recover into a backwards somersault.
She rolled onto her feet and whirled to face me.
29 : Hitchhiker
Previous
La Luste, whose real name was Megan, was almost frantic as
she ran to her front door and scrambled for her keys. James had told her that
he suspected someone was behind the supervillain outbreaks, leading her to fear
for her boyfriend’s safety. Not wasting a second, Strider got her address,
plugged it into her GPS to map it, and then bounced us all over there.
28 : Shoggoth
Previous
I didn’t really know what I was doing. Certainly, it was
easy enough for me to force the body to produce the chemicals necessary to
influence the brain. I could put someone to sleep, influence moods, stress
levels, cause hallucinations, etc. It was a complex organ, however, and not one
I could manipulate with fine precision to unlock memories or such like. I
wasn’t a telepath, I couldn’t just read the bio-electric activity in the mind
to see what a person was thinking. In that way, it was not like I could just
forcibly trigger memories the way a person could access a computer file.
27 : Earth Mage
Previous
I spotted her atop the Arch, a tall woman with wild red hair
and an outlandish purple costume. Around her body, large steel plates revolved,
forming a rotating shield. She actually hovered several feet above the
structure, enabling these plates to cover the whole of her body, while leaving
a steady opening for her to see out of.
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