Anon said: Do you agree with me that Armsmaster would have made a BETTER supervillain than superhero? I mean, he doesn’t seem very heroic in everything he did lately.
Yeah, probably. It’s worth noting he had less than ten minutes to come up with his villainous plan for how to get a one-on-one battle with Levvy – he couldn’t have predicted that they’d get that break. At least not with any certainty.
Also, he certainly has the villainous confession when caught down.
Anon said: Man, can you imagine what would have happened if Taylor had actually accepted Armsmaster’s offer to join the Wards back in Arc 1? “Hi Taylor, welcome to the team. This is your new teammate Sophia.” Taylor: “… WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?!?!?”
Ahaha, yeah! I can’t help but imagine Taylor walking in the door to the Ward HQ, seeing Sophia, and turning right around on the spot with “NOPE” written all over her face. 😛
I’m sure there have been written some really good fanfics about this.
Anon said: Re post 168086238194: Now that we’ve established you guessed wrong, I guess it’s okay to point out that your logic was kinda bad here. In the middle of a battle, the important thing to know is which of your allies are no longer in a condition to fight. Figuring out which ones are dead, and which ones are merely hurt is something that can wait until after the fight. Also, if losses meant the same thing as deceased, why wouldn’t the armbands just say deceased?
Yeah, I suppose you’re right.
(Once again the intelligence trophy goes to Taylor and you guys rather than me :P)
Anon said: Now that you’re posting the transcripts of asks, you don’t need to post the screenshot too. Having the image there too doesn’t actually add anything to the post.
Yeah, that’s fair. I was kind of thinking the same thing. Besides, not having the screenshots significantly lightens Sharks’ workload.
I wonder if some of you still visit the Tebble of Constants every once in a while, even though I post chrono links at the end of each session these days, just to keep up with the “titles” I give the chapters.
Hooooo boy. That was one hell of a ride.
Time for bullet points, I think.
I suppose that last thing is what we’ll have to begin dealing with next time. It might be time to look for Danny, and/or check whether his house is still intact, too.
So yeah, I love this chapter. See you next time! 😀
I turned and ran out of the hospital, out the door and into the street, kept running.
Except I had no place to run to.
Welp.
Bitch stared at me wide eyed, teeth bared, as if all basic human expression had left her as she regarded me. Regent looked me up and down, turned away, as if in disgust, one fist clenched hard enough to make the area around the long stitched up cut on his arm stand out in white.
Yeeeah, they’re not taking it well.
But how about Grue? Grue, the one Taylor got the closest to besides Tattle. Grue, her romantic interest up until his rejection a week ago. Grue, the leader of the team.
I couldn’t see Grue’s face, could barely make out his body language, but I knew that it would have stung ten times worse than anything else if I could see his expression in that moment.
Sounds about right.
Tattletale was the only one who didn’t look surprised.
Hah! She knew, didn’t she! 😀
I backed away a step, and nobody moved to stop me. The heroes were preoccupied with Armsmaster, the Undersiders couldn’t or wouldn’t go around the gathered heroes to follow me.
Fair enough, really.
Some of the capes that were in the vicinity were staring at me. Murmuring. Panacea was among them, looking at me as though I were from another planet.
Oh man, Panacea must be so confused by this new knowledge, what with how dead set she was about Taylor being a horrible person and all.
And the kicker, that Panacea doesn’t specifically know about? When Taylor did all those things that got Panacea thinking of her like that, she still thought of herself as a hero.
I tried to speak, to say something, even ‘I changed my mind’. My throat was too dry to form the words.
Armsmaster turned, shouted at the capes who stood watching, “You want to look down on me!? I tried to save this city, I got closer to killing the fucking Endbringer than Scion!
Yeah, right.
That girl is the person you should be mocking, spitting on! A wannabe hero without the balls to do anything heroic! Planning from the start to betray teammates for fame!”
Isn’t… isn’t that literally what you just did? Under the truce, Kaiser, Fenja, Menja… they were all your teammates.
I stepped back, swallowed hard.
“Is this true?”
I turned to look at Grue, but he wasn’t asking me. The question was for Tattletale.
I mean… fair. Why trust the accused over the fountain of knowledge who is still unambiguously on your side.
“Yeah,” Tattletale confirmed, sighing.
Well. Cat’s out of the bag.
Bitch stared at me wide eyed, teeth bared,
And, uh, Bitch isn’t exactly a cat person.
(I didn’t even set that up on purpose…)
I spoke quickly, “Grue, shut him up.”
Grue raised his hand. But he didn’t blanket Armsmaster in his darkness.
Yeeah, Grue already noticed that something was up, and now you want him to stop someone from telling you what? Not gonna happen.
“She’s a wannabe hero. Has been from the start, since the night Lung was first brought into custody.”
Grue’s hand dropped to his side.
I’m also curious about Miss Militia’s reaction. Has Army told her about Skitter?
“I met her that night. She said she was a hero, that you Undersiders mistook her for a villain. I didn’t think twice about it until she arranged a meeting with me, the night before the bank robbery. Told me she had joined your group as an undercover agent, getting the dirt on you so she could hand that group over to us. Talked to me again the night you raided the fundraiser, out there on the balcony. Told me if I let her go, she’d get the details on your boss to me. Guess she hasn’t gotten around to figuring that little detail out, yet.”
Man, if you’d just stopped before that last sentence, you would’ve left Taylor in a lot more trouble than you just did, I think.
The Undersiders know for a fact that Taylor has figured out that detail, about a week ago (or a little more? the timeline is getting a little less solid for me as time goes on, but I do believe they mentioned to Coil that the events of Buzz happened the day after those of Tangle, and the meeting was a week after Purity’s rampage), but now Army implied that she hasn’t gotten back to the Protectorate about it yet.
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