Haha this was great. I would love to see a PoV from lisa or such to show how coil was worked into a dead end. As that was kind of out of the blue. A nice flash back chapter or such, would fill some holes.
I can't imagine the military's total gaping shock and glee of what they are moving towards. Cloaked vehicles/personnel with rail guns(and who knows what else she builds or what darpa ideas are in storage from being not feasible until now) and portals to move them around? Holy shit. It's even more crazy them some science fiction and I love it.
As far has her cloaking thing being tinkertech its obviously not. It has none of its defining characteristics, others can build and understand it and there was no shard involved in its construction or making it work. Sure inspiration was taken from a tinktertech device, but inspiration isnt a quantifiable thing the PRT can use to get a foot in(if they can prove it). The PRT is basically screwed because they set the definition of what a parahuman and what tinkertech is. And changing it now would be too obvious. The most they could do is confiscate squealers cloaking device that taylor found. Taylor basically took about any definition of tinker out of it(working when it shouldn't, a shard basically making it work, no one understanding how it works even the maker,etc). They also just never have to mention where the inspiration came from to get as little push-back as possible.
The PRT will keep pushing though. They have to. While they have been told and shown its not a parahuman via brain scan, its logical for them to not trust it as it could just be a scan from anyone. And DARPA wont give them the real name or let them scan taylor themself because of operational security, as it should be. At least atm, as they have shown they know they can't keep it a secret forever and only want to get a far enough lead to keep it. It will be a hilarious moment when it does come out who taylor is and the PRT personally do a scan and find nothing. Also Rebecca better be careful, taylor can tell who parahumans are, and if RBC shows up and she detects she is one and lets someone know, goodbye PRT position.
And right from there it went to completely OOC for Coil. Because splitting timelines is a reflex for him to that point.
I agree at this point it he felt a bit ooc. As I would of expected a split right as the previous collapsed. One going home and one driving to another base or such. But I also think it would of not changed the outcome and just been a few hundred words of him splitting and the same things happening, as I think, that they knew exactly what his power was. Since they hit his base and were at his home waiting. So I would assume other bases(if there are any) were being watced or his car being easily monitored with a drone or such as he drove home. Splitting in the room with the agent and TT would be even more pointless, granted he probably would of at least tried once or twice if the author wanted to write that all out.
I am hoping for a interlude or something from Tatttletale's PoV to see how she set him up and what brought her to the attention of the agent. If coil was doing like kaiser and getting info from PRT informants, they could of traced it back to either of them just like it did to kaiser. And if they got to TT first, she would easily jump at the chance to screw him over.
Outside of tinker systems, seems worm doesn't care much for information security. Wouldn't be hard for the government to tap phones, internet and such on every villain and their members in BB.
