Who else?  He wracked his brain.  Jack Slash was the brains and leader of the operation.  Not a threat unto himself.

Not to Hookwolf personally, I suppose. It’d just be metal against metal.

Shatterbird couldn’t harm him, he was almost certain.

Besides the layer of skin, but Hookwolf’s dealt with that already.

Bonesaw.  She was the wild card, the most unpredictable element in terms of what she could bring to the table.

Unpredictable does seem to be her thing.

Is her power as unpredictable as she is? Maybe it’s like Eidolon’s but random, like the power I made up for myself back in Extermination?

So often the case with tinkers.

Oh. Okay, so she’s a tinker too. I suppose that makes sense – didn’t Coil’s info on Mannequin state or imply that Bonesaw had helped out with his transformation?

As for her specialty… Medical equipment? I know that might sound weird, but a bonesaw is a surgical tool, and tinker-grade medical equipment would be a very varied category of tools (accounting for unpredictability), many of which could be used as weaponry as well. Especially if adjusted by a morally compromised tinker with her specialty in it.

More troubling were the Nine he couldn’t put down.  The Siberian was untouchable, an immovable object, invincible in a way that even Alexandria wasn’t.

Hm, interesting. We already know about the “immovable object” part, but the invincibility is new.

I guess if no part of her can be moved against her will, piercing or slicing attacks can’t force her flesh to part, and bludgeoning attacks do no damage either because they don’t push the flesh inward to squish things… I suppose invincibility to physical attacks, at the very least, is a logical consequence of this power.

Even if he were capable of hurting Crawler, he wouldn’t want to.

Interesting. So is that because of their power, or interpersonal stuff? I’m inclined to believe the former.

Although maybe it’s just that he doesn’t want to piss them off because of a scary offensive power. That doesn’t seem quite like Hookwolf though, and he’s considering this on the basis that he thinks the Slaughterhouse members are all attacking in the first place.

Mannequin, he wasn’t sure about.  He knew the crazed tinker had encased himself in a nearly indestructible shell.  As strong as Hookwolf was, he faced that distant possibility that any of these people could pin him down or set him up to be taken out by others.

Sounds about right, especially with the “unless he was forced to stay still” from the last paragraph meeting Siberian’s power.

Which is to say I’m resuming the chapter. Let’s go! 😛

Yo dawg I heard you like Worm so I put a worm in your Worm… and that worm is me.