I didn’t have a reply to that. I couldn’t pry, and I couldn’t elaborate.
Yeah, seems wise. She may be more open than usual, but I doubt she’d appreciate being asked about the Glory Girl situation.
“So you’re the supposedly good person who was pretending to be a crook, and I’m the monster who was pretending to be a hero, but when the dust settled, we both wound up being villains. Funny how that works.”
Actually, I’m pretty sure the “monster who was pretending to be a hero” would be Shadow Stalker. To be fair, though, she did start out as a villain and wasn’t pretending very hard.
Meanwhile, Madcap/Assault seems to actually have become a hero, even if he was just pretending to begin with.
“Maybe because doing the right thing is hard,” I offered.
Amen to that.
She shrugged.
“But you can do the right thing. We need your help. I don’t know your circumstances for leaving home. I won’t pry. But I think you’re one of the few people who can stop Crawler, maybe even Siberian too.
Hmm. I do suppose it makes sense that the way to stop someone with freaky biology, like Crawler, is to use someone who can manipulate biology. And if Siberian can’t be beaten from the outside, beat her from inside.
The main problem is that Panacea’s got a Striker power. In direct combat, it’s going to be easy for Siberian to avoid getting Struck by an otherwise mundanely moving Panacea. Though Siberian would have to avoid tactics like she used on Bitch, locking the victim in place with her immobility.
But the question of course becomes “would Siberian know about Panacea’s power?” …I suppose that’s likely considering Panacea is a candidate, and especially considering she’s Bonesaw’s candidate. Bonesaw would probably talk about her candidate to the others, especially Siberian.
We need you around in case they start winning and we wind up with injuries or death, and we need you in case we start winning, and they decide to use that plague out of sheer spite.”
Ah, yeah, that’s another good point. Under these circumstances it would absolutely be good to have a healer on board.
…man, I hope this results in Panacea staying at the Hive.
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