A/N: Not so much humor in this chapter.
Ahh! It's… (Worm/Dynasty Warriors)
Chapter 3
Ahh! It's…Time for School.
Sophia Hess looked up at the sky and watched as karma prepared to give her a nice chomp on her shapely ass. The athletic girl was rather proud of it for it was the product of several years of hard fighting and training and she'd prefer not to have a chunk of it bitten off.
The day had started normal enough, as normal as a day can go in this crazy city that was getting crazier by the day since Hebert got shoved into the locker for a family reunion. A worm stuffed into a metal box filled with her relatives and they're generous enough to provide refreshments! It almost brought a genuine smile on her face rather than the scowl and sneer she usually spots with people other than Emma.
Emma on the other hand was getting stir crazy and it's not hard to see why. An earthworm was thrown into the box and the fucking Jormugand serpent broke out of it in a gigantic ball of fire and reduced the hallway into a burnt crater.
That roar when she burst out of the locker during that very public trigger. Even if you didn't see it, you sure as hell heard it all throughout BB.
So now Emma was getting everyone she could cajole and blackmail into placing wooden fences along every hallway she can think off. Like she was planning to herd someone or something. She can tell it wasn't to herd someone into a trap. No, it was a delaying action meant to stall for time rather than try to stop the unstoppable.
The probationary Ward knew of course who the fuck she pissed off that she'd get on the bad side of the entire Winslow staff by barricading the school. The gangs were surprisingly willing to go along. The E88 and the Merchants moved to form their own strongholds in corners of the school while the ABB had scattered and were collectively truant from the school. The news wasn't out yet, but Sophia was well aware that Taylor fucking Hebert had whacked Lung. They were picking up pieces of him with cranes all night and morning after the new cape tangled with the metal dragon along the docks.
"So why did Emma choose to believe fucking Tattletale of all people?" Sophia muttered under her breath while Emma sat next to her desk poring over maps of the school grounds while yelling direction into her phone to her lackeys.
The annoying blonde villain had approached Emma with a wardrobe change and a feathered fan as her new accessory. Her new cape name of Wolong was almost a deal breaker for the redhead who was immensely triggered by the Asian flair of the cape's new look. But she had believed the newly Asian cape regardless and only said to Sophia something which made her wander if Tattletale had obtained a Master power.
"Master Zhuge Liang is always correct." Considering that Emma had developed a hatred for all things east of the Balkans that would make Kaiser tell her to tone it down, it almost made Sophia intervene.
Almost being the operative word. Sophia Hess thinks something bigger was up and she was willing to let the redhead take the bait.
And now, just in time for lunch Karma had arrived ready to grab a bite and she was the main course after the entre that was Emma.
Karma of course came in the form of the now seven feet Taylor Hebert riding a giant metal dragon with six wings, four arms and four pairs of eyes covered in fire that both blotted out and replaced the sun. Using that empowered polearm of hers to steer Lung by slicing of whatever parts of Lung that attempted to throw her off his back and yanking the pyrokinetic however was fun to see.
"Quit mumbling and…what's that stupid voice?…Pron…pronounce your words! And speak Chinese! I don't under..un…know what you're saying!"
Hebert was somehow louder than Lung when she yelled it out in English.
The massive dragon riding cape than started yanking the lengthy neck of her ride in an effort to get Lung to land. Sophia decided it was time to take drastic action. Looking around, the off disguise ward made sure they were alone before tuning to her friend.
"Emma."
"Yes?"
"You're on your own. I'm out."
Sophia ignored the screams of outrage as she phased through the walls and began legging it out of the school. A good predator knows when there's a new apex predator in the food chain and she's a piranha to Taylor Hebert's mutated lungfish from a Chinese trawler.
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Grue for the tenth time muttered to whoever would listen that he hated the plan. Tattletale had some very stupid ideas from time to time when that power of hers goes wrong in a bad way, but telling him that he needed to stand still holding a burning torch in a hallway full of E88 skinheads for five seconds was a new record.
Wolong, as she's now known, had assured him in a relaxed drawl that made her sound like she was on tranquilizers that her plan will always succeed.
"The fire attack will catch all the linked barriers I have arranged to be constructed in that school. It will be a flawless victory." The blond had made that claim while fanning herself languidly with that fan of hers. She didn't bother to explain how she can light up an entire school with just one torch, but she simply laughed softly while giving her that smug look she's very good at.
He didn't believe her, but the money she offered was very good.
Stand still with a burning torch in a hallway full of neo Nazis while not using his powers was not something he had in mind. On the other hand, he was allowed to soften up and stun the crowd before he played statute in a crowd that already wanted to kill him on bigoted principal alone.
Grue was about to quit after he counted to five and abandon the mission when the world caught on fire.
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Emma Barnes stalked down the burning, smoke filled halls of Winslow, following a pre-set path in case of an emergency. The plan by Master Zhuge Liang was working so well, with Hebert being herded to dead end after dead end by the fences erected hastily to block her path and direct her. As predicted, the monstrous cape avoided breaking the fences despite how fragile they are compared to some of the things she's already smashed, like Lung for an instance.
This allowed swarms of E88 and Merchants to swarm Taylor and of course that no good traitor Madison. Where did all those numbers come from and how did they fit into the classrooms and hallways where they emerged from puzzled her, but it was not her problem. Even the fact that they looked very similar with only a few changes in variety didn't faze her much. The ABB looked the same way to her anyway.
The redhead seethed at her former minion's betrayal and quick embrace of the new ABB. Madison was privileged enough to know of that incident in the alley and she mocked her with her Fu Manchu get up. But revenge will have to wait when her escape was cut off by the school suddenly catching fire. The parts that didn't thanks to a still functioning sprinkler system, found themselves flooded.
Localised floods triggered by sprinklers when they barely have enough water to provide for a bag of the Merchant's weed? Taylor's powers were bullshit.
"Dong Zhuo you pig! Where did you hide Diao Chan! Tell me before I stick you like the swine you are!"
Oh fuck me! Wolong's plans led right to the principal's office. Emma froze on the spot as her former bestie's eyes met her own. The massive cape dropped Principal Blackwell from the chokehold she held her in, allowing the gasping woman to scramble away. Standing on the right was her former partner in crime Madison, her posture subservient and keeping a good three feet away from Taylor.
"Diao Chan…" The giant cape rumbled before she made her way almost hesitantly towards Emma before Madison moved between the two.
"Milady! Please allow me to speak with Lady Diao Chan. She must be so alarmed at your presence to rescue her." Not waiting for Taylor's approval, the budding strategist pulled Emma into a huddle.
Emma noticed that Madison was a lot stronger than before when the smaller girl pulled her into the huddle, but she didn't become what she was by being intimidated by pure physical strength. The redhead hissed out her first question.
"Madison, what the fuck's wrong with you. Did Hebert's new slant eye friends run such a train over you that you went native?"
"Emma. I know of your problems with the ABB and the nasty shit they do." Emma can barely believe the calm tone taken by the petite girl. It's the fucking human trafficking ABB!
"But I'm going to level with you. It's not about the ABB and the nasty shit they do. Right now, it's all about Taylor Hebert who apparently triggered as some crazy cape with powers that among other things allow her to produce fucking floating meat buns that can fix your shit right up better than Panacea. "
"All those gangers that look like the Attack of the Clones? They're some kind of fucked up projection by Taylor because she believes that wooden fences are impenetrable by any force on earth unless something dramatic happens to break them up and any kind of gaps between them should have an endless wave of people charging at her with weapons so she can chop them up like weeds. Her beliefs set up some kind of impenetrable force field over those fences we arranged you to set up here as an experiment to see how far her control over fucking reality was. And it turns out it was very far control. The fact that Wolong and I were able to think of this plan in the first place? The fact we got you to even agree to that stupid shit? All a part of Taylor's fucked mind-set right now. Sometimes, I get so caught up in character and the madness, I forget and it scares me more than Hebert does. Sometimes anyway."
Emma looked at her smaller friend with fear in her eyes and whispered weakly. "I don't have much of a choice to go or not, don't I."
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Taylor stepped out of Winslow and surveyed the PRT vehicles and personnel that formed a loose circle around the school.
The massive cape snorted at the pathetic array raised against her as she held a snoozing Emma with her left arm. The redhead had begun crying and screeching after agreeing to go home with her and it made Taylor's head hurt to think of why. Diao Chan only quieten down after Gongtai used a cloth that smelled funny on her.Chen Madison had thought for her as was her job, but she used too many big words and so there was nothing worth listening to anymore. It was not like her father was skewered like so many fathers Taylor had met before. She only wants someone who can keep her company and not make things so complicated like it usually is with people like Wolong and the other smart thinking type people.
Taylor had asked the stupid voice that had whined when she took the head dress, armour and met the disgusting Australians who were Asian and insisted on talking about roos and poo. But the voice had gone quiet like a dead skewered father when Gongtai Clements and Diao Chan started speaking with all those big words.
The voice is probably thinking of something. Probably something lewd like she did when Diao Chan and Madison were speaking of eyes and trains. Eye trains sound like fun! Then the voice had started throwing up when Diao Chan started talking even softer than usual and Chen Gong started speaking about dancing.
So the voice throws up when talking about eye trains and Diao Chan dancing. Lewd voice is lewd and also has bad taste and hygiene.
A woman wearing the uniform of the PRT walked up to Taylor, her face covered by a scarf with stars and stripes like that flag outside the fort of the thin Dong Zhuo. Her skin reminds me of the Nanman and also the darker Nanman that can transform into shadow.
She held up one of those mobile phones that the voice hated so much.
"Your father, Daniel Hebert would like to speak to you."
The voice suddenly got a lot louder and more annoying.