Fastigium
1.Interlude
[Fastigium]
2008 Feb 12th
It was a normal day in Brockton Bay for Taylor, hanging out at the park with Emma enjoying their last month of winter; the cold starting to settle down, everything was perfect.
Then it started getting weird, it started raining, a LOT.
Then the sirens blared.
After that, everything went to hell.
People started running, the unlucky ones pushed to the ground, she and Emma ran hand in hand before being separated in the herd of distressed people.
As she was looking for Emma she heard a roar and she saw it, giant, four eyes one on the right on three on the left, waves of water behind it.
The Leviathan
She gave up on her previous endeavor of finding Emma, hoping she would be safe, and started running away eventually seeing brick apartment building, ladder on top of it.
She quickly climbed to the top in hopes of safety, once at the top she saw the Triumvirate off in the far fighting the Endbringer, Legend hitting it with his lasers, Eidolon teleporting from one building to another dodging the water and blasting ice towards it and Alexandria Flying around it every now and then trying and mostly failing to punch it.
Other capes were there fight it off but barely doing anything, the Endbringer moving as fast as a blur before drowning them in water or crushing them under debris.
It was a horrifying sight for the young girl.
Eventually the Leviathan left leaping into the water leaving Brockton Bay to pick up the pieces just like all others before it.
Taylor had went down, and started running around in hopes of finding someone but what she found made her stand still.
[Destination]
Her mother and fathers dead bodies close together as if some kind of sick joke made by the universe.
[Trajectory]
Her mothers, bloodied and broken in her car.
[Query]
Her fathers, impaled upon a rusty metal pole stuck in the ground, crimson blood pouring down.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH" she started screaming, a loud roar of pain and sadness that made her throat hoarse.
[Agreement]
Then everything went dark.
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[Phantasm]
2010 Sep 27th
It was a normal school day for Charlotte, well as normal as a day in Winslow could get.
Most days consisting of having to deal with the jeers, insults and slurs from the Skinheads.
You would think that after the death of Kaiser and many other Empire capes they would barely be any left but no, Hookwolf had not only kept it alive but brought it to new heights.
After another boring school day she had expected to get home but instead felt something hard hit her head, knocking her out.
Eventually she came to and saw she was in a room with a single light above her, she was tied to a chair unable to move.
The door to the left opened and three men walked in, two adults and one as old as her.
"Well look who just woke up from her little nap." The first one said, he was tall burly and raven haired with brown eyes.
"What do you want, why am here?!" Charlotte shouted.
"Our little brother here," the other one short and stout pointed at what she could only assume was another kid from her school " needed help with his initiation and while we could have gone with one of those apes we decided it was pretty cliché at this point so what better than some dumb Jewish bitch" he said, the last three words enthicized by him poking her forehead with his finger.
The first one then left the room before coming back with three bats handing two to the others, they readied themselves and before she could shout for them stop, for someone, anyone, to help they started beating her.
Hit after hit, blow after blow she sat there taking it, the three of them laughing like little kids in a playground, as if they took the most pure kind of joy from this.
She wanted out, out, out, OUT!
[Destination]
[Trajectory]
[Query]
"STOOOOP!" she was able to scream between the hits.
[Agreement]
Her eyes glowed a ghostly light blue and to the three brothers, she had disappeared.
And before they knew it they were out cold.
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[Simulator]
2011 Mar 4th
Coil walked through his base passing by two guards who greeted him with a nod and a firm "Boss."
Coil eventually made it to his office sitting down and after a couple of boring calls and paperwork got to his real work for the day.
Slowly his hands waved upwards as if opening a curtain, an infinity symbol invisible to all others but himself appeared.
It looked as if it was made of shards glass, both ends colored red and a sky blue with the intersection colored a light purple.
On the red side, it showed him in his civilian guise, Thomas Calvert, at home enjoying a fine wine after a long day's work.
On the blue side, he had received a call from his group of mercenaries tasked with recruiting Wraith.
He remembered she had first showed up 5 months ago targeting the Fenrirs Chosen, stash houses, gatherings etc.
He could not lie that her powers could be useful, it took a bit before he figured out who she was, a one Charlotte Abraham Thomson.
Those three brothers wouldn't be missed that much by anyone but their families, just his luck that they decided not to tell anyone about her identity, while he wasn't one for the unwritten rules when it came to people he was interested in hiring they still came in handy.
He dropped the red timeline and picked up the phone.
"Hello." He said plainly.
"Hey boss, bad news, she got away Kev got her in the leg but she teleported away, we haven't found her yet and I don't think we will." The man on the other side of the phone.
"Hmm, shame, well she wasn't a top priority for hire but still," he sat there for a beat "alright report back to base, goodbye." He ended the call before calling his pet fox.
"Hello?" said Tattletales voice over the phone.
"Why hello to you too Tattletale, I hope I'm not of any inconvenience." He said, in a monotone voice.
"No boss you're not, and to what do I owe the pleasure?" she said in a smug tone.
"I have a job for you and the Undersiders next month, I would like you to rob the Brockton Bay Central Bank." He told her, still monotone.
"Wait what?! But why, it won't even pay that well." She said in a baffled manner.
"While true, I require it for a future operation and would greatly appreciate it." He said his tone now going from monotone to dark and threatening.
"Alright, alright fine." She said before hanging up.
Now to see the acquisition of a, Mister Pitter.
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[Negotiator]
Lisa stood there before pocketing her phone and heading downstairs to the living room of the base.
Eventually getting there, she saw: Alec playing videogames, Brian eating a taco and Rachel with her three dogs.
"Hey guys we got another job from the boss." She told them as Rachel and Brian looked at her.
"Yeah, what is it?" asked Alec without looking away.
"Were robbing the Brockton Bay Bank." She said in a playful tone.
That got everyone's attention, as even Alec looked her way.
"Please, tell me you're joking." Said Brian in a pleading manner.
She just laughed awkwardly.
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AN: And that's the first interlude of the story everyone.
I hope you liked that little reveal for Wraith.
In addition, please tell me if I have written Coil right or not.
Whelp that is it for today, hope you people enjoyed.
Added a couple changes to previous chapters as well.
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