“Wards!”  Weld hollered.  “Crawler and Mannequin, like we discussed!  Close ranks around Victoria!”

I’m all for Weld having a speaking role.

So now that everyone’s out, it’s time for team tactics. Let’s see what they’ve got in mind!

His words broke the spell that the scene had over Vista and Flechette.  Surprising that there were so few Wards here, on a level.  Kid Win wasn’t in sight, nor was Chariot, and Clockblocker was under the sway of his own powers.

Yeah, this was optional.

Shadow Stalker, Aegis, Gallant and Browbeat were dead or gone.

Right, Browbeat… moved, was it, when his family evacuated? As for Shadow Stalker, that’s a story you’re quite personally familiar with, ain’t it, Taylor? 😉 Though not as familiar as you think.

The final sorta-maybe member of their group, Glory Girl, was being eaten alive by Crawler’s acid.

…wait, hang on. If the acid doesn’t keep the shield down, could it reform around Victoria, keeping some of the acid in? That would be bad for any attempts to save her.

By the way, speaking of my sister, this session will probably be fairly short. I’m going out to see The Incredibles 2 later.

Anyway, let’s get it started already. :p

I wonder if any of Bakuda’s bombs could manage to hurt Crawler. She was capable of reproducing people’s powers as bombs, and seemingly only needed to have observed them in order to do it. She couldn’t have reproduced the one power we know for sure can hurt Crawler so far, because she was arrested and killed before that power was bestowed on Scrub, but she may have had access to other powers that could do it.

Prey 14.6

thriller, thriller night… la la lalala la la, lala… beast about to strike… thriller, thriller night… la la lalala la la, lala… thing with forty eyes, girl…

Oh, hi! Sorry, didn’t see you there. Maybe I should get some extra eyes of my own.

So. Last time Weld and Skitter worked together to take on Mannequin and to a lesser extent Crawler. Neither of them are properly defeated yet, though now at least the other heroes have joined the fray. But Crawler’s coming to fuck them up.

I think this chapter is going to be very much a direct continuation of the last chapter, a part 2 of the Mannequin/Crawler battle (with more focus on Crawler). Eventually we might also make it to the second barrage of bombs. I wonder, will Taylor have to figure that out by seeing the heroes withdraw, or if someone who recognizes that Skitter doesn’t deserve to get blown to smithereens – Weld or Legend, I’m thinking – will show the courtesy of warning her, and maybe even help her get out of the blast zone. Or maybe she’ll have to find out the hard way.

I’m definitely hoping for the second option. I like both Legend and Weld for being genuinely good guys, and I’d like them to keep that up. I think Legend is still distracted by Siberian, but Weld at least ought to warn Taylor– fuck, I just remembered, Legend is probably still the only one who knows about the second wave before Piggot orders the retreat, isn’t he. Damn it.

Well. Guess it’s gonna be time to dance at some point.

For now, though, let’s jump in and try to do something about Crawler!

I’ve been doing a little too much procrastinating on a thing I need to do before blogging, and I’m not really in a blogging mood anyway, so… blog tomorrow, I suppose. See you then!

The Table of Contents currently has all the chapters in Prey under chapter 13.

Oh, whoops, I forgot to put an Arc header and didn’t notice because I edit the Tebble in HTML mode now. Fixed, thanks!

Well in on AU-fanfic the Endbringers never show up among other spoilery things so parahumans are treated like the mutants in x-men. Taylor and Sophia have to put aside their differences to avoid the all-parahuman Birdcage pretty much in the first chapter. It was a pretty decent fic with 270k words. Sadly it will take some time until getting you fic-recommendations makes sense but I’m letting you know it exists.

Huh, that sounds pretty cool!

I wonder how the Birdcage exists if parahumans are hunted down and Leviathan never destroyed Newfoundland. I guess maybe Dragon’s creator has been arrested and forced to use his talents to make the Birdcage possible, and then maybe placed in it himself (though putting the involuntary designer of a prison inside that prison is a stupid move)?

There is a fanfic that puts Mr. Incredible and Frozone in the Wormverse.

Nice. I suppose they’d be fairly basic heroes here, though perhaps unused to the way the Wormverse handles capes if it’s a matter of them traveling there from their home world.

The reverse honestly sounds more interesting, provided it takes place before the events of the movies.

“All that said, ‘Worm but superheroes are driven into hiding by the government á là The Incredibles” would probably be a pretty cool AU.’” Such fanfictions do exist. One even has about a hundred chapters and a sequel planned.

Liz, Liz, Liz! You need to tell Krix about Divided!
It’s not quite The Incredibles, but I think it’s close enough, what with the government chasing Parahumans into hiding.

Cool! I wonder if these are the same one the first ask mentioned, the 270k long one.

(Also I feel like I should clarify that the Incredibles-like hiding I’m talking about is with the government’s help, rather than persecution. It’s more like a witness protection program.)

In the topic of boat licenses: in my state, a boat with a motor has to be registered with the state government (like a car). To drive a boat, you must have a license. From the ages of 12-14, you can have a learner’s license, which lets you drive the boat if there is someone 21 or older with a valid boaters in the boat also. Once you turn 14, you can get your actual boaters license. This is supposedly some of the stricter laws in the US.

I was expecting asks about the origin of the meme (a connection hiccup causing the message “Yeah… I’m not sure how their parents were ok with that. Pretty sure you need to be 16 for a boat license” to send twice and the rest of us making fun of that). I was not expecting interesting trivia about boat license laws. 😛

Those do sound like fairly reasonable laws to me, honestly, though I’m not sure how the founding fathers were ok with that. Pretty sure the government needs to be 16 for a reasonable lawmaking license

Interesting how all her onscreen defeats have been something being put on her and then her force field getting broken, huh?

It’s almost like it’s Victoria’s weakness. 😛