She watched everyone file out. Legend stayed behind.
Yo.
“You’re not saying everything,” he murmured.
“No.”
Does Legend know about Chariot?
“Fill me in?”
“Some of that is to mislead the spy in our midst. We have a follow-up measure.”
“Does it pose a risk to this team?”
A follow-up measure? To deal with Coil messing with things, or maybe just to see how he reacts?
“It does. Unavoidable. I suspect Coil will inform Hookwolf and encourage the Chosen, the Pure and even Faultline’s group to act. Tattletale, I suspect, will know something’s going on, and I intend to leak enough information to pique her curiosity.
But why would Coil do that? To stab the Protectorate in the back?
The Undersiders and the Travelers wouldn’t, not while cooperating with them, but Coil absolutely would.
It’s in the moment that the villains enter the situation that the risk to our capes occurs.”
Right.
“But?”
“But we have a store of equipment we confiscated from Bakuda when we raided her laboratory.
…
I jokingly brought this up very recently in relation to the Protectorate stepping into a fight between the Undertravelers and the Nine, in my Worm/SU crossover crackfic.
If me dragging that old nitpick back up and making the entire “plot” of the fic a weird consequence of the Protectorate using Bakuda’s equipment didn’t tip you off, I still don’t think it’s a good idea. 😛
Miss Militia deployed a number against Leviathan, but we have more. Once the other factions have engaged, we bombard the area with the remainder in a second strike. Our research suggests that several of these explosives can bypass the Manton effect.”
…holy fuck.
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