Fastigium [Apex Legends/Worm]

[ToucanPoppyJakob]

Fastigium


2.3

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Octane was running around the Butcher, shooting him constantly, yet it seem to have no effect, or at least, barely any.

"Are you even trying?" asked the Butcher.

Octane only grunted angrily.

Then the Butcher was in the back from elsewhere.

"Miss me?" said Wraith.

The Butcher hmphed before teleporting in front of Octane, exploding in his face and then throwing him away.

"No."

"Eh, to be expected."

Wraith turned invisible and ran towards the Butcher.

All the Butcher did was create a dark sphere leaving it close to him.

Wraith then reappeared, catching herself from falling.

"What the hell?"

The Butcher dashed at her, his hand turning sharp and cutting her up.

After seven attacks, she staggered backwards and fell on the ground.

"Don't be so quick to run in young girl." He said in an amused tone.

The Butcher looked around, seeing the child was gone, looked towards Taylor and started approaching.

However, before he could attack her…

"Duck!"

Taylor brought her head low, hearing a thud, she looked up to see her son in a fedora and trench coat, his grappling hook on his arm.

The Butcher hit ground, groaning, he got back up and looked at Pathfinder.

"And who might you be?" asked the Butcher

"I'm Pathfinder, and you tried to hurt my mom." His screen turned angry.

Pathfinder charged at him, the Butcher pulled up his fists, and the both started fighting.

Pathfinder throwing his fists like a professional boxer.

Left

Right

Up

Right

Left

Down

Center

Center

Pathfinder hit the Butcher continuously.

Uppercut

Sending the Butcher upwards, he shot him with his grappling hook.

Pathfinder began to spin, sending the Butcher in a circle before flinging him away.

After that, the PRT, the police, the paramedics and the heroes came to them.

After explaining the situation and getting patched up Taylor pulled Pathfinder away for a one on one.

"Thank you, I was so scared but then you came and saved me," looking him in the 'face' "I'm proud."

"Of course id come and save you, you're my mother and I love you."

"Love you too." They sat there hugging each other.

Until…

"You're grounded though." She said in a stern.

Pathfinder released her.

"But-"

"Ah, ah, ah, none of that, do you know how scary it was watching you fight the Butcher of all people," she sighed "of course, you'll probably do this again someday or another, god, why did I have to become a mother at sixteen." She said in a pained voice.

The both of them went back to the rest of the group but before they could leave, a news crew stopped them and had started asking them questions.

Wraith did not elaborate on what happened in the storage facility.

Pathfinder told them how exhilarating his fight with the new Butcher was, the public now most likely knowing of his existence.

Octane surprisingly said things straightforward, though he did add a couple jokes in there.

Finally, Taylor told them of their fight with Hemorrhagia and Spree.

Before they could leave, the reporter asked on last question.

"Who are you?"

"Well, we are Apex," she before pointing at the others "she's Wraith, he's Octane, he's Pathfinder and I…"

Standing there, she thought to herself, she needed a name, a good one, something unforgettable.

"I am Fastigium."

Elsewhere…

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Loba sat against the wall, she should probably go back home, at least that would make t easy for her mom and dad to find her.

She heard something, looking around she saw nothing.

Relieved, she began to head home.

Only to be stopped by the Butcher himself.

Falling back, she dragged herself away from him.

"I finally found you, those capes were a bother and now most of my Teeth will be incarcerated," he put a hand behind his back pulling out what looked like a metal head of a wolf "I wanted to give you this."

She looked at it.

"W-why?"

"It was present from your parents, they decided to be heroes and I got a little carried away."

She looked at him in shock.

"What?"

"Indeed, Vex had found a box in your mothers purse, saying it was a present for you."

No.

[Destination]

"I saw you run so I decided that I should bring it to you, no hard feelings." He said before grabbing the wall, climbing up, and leaving.

[Trajectory]

Please no, after everything, the torture and suffering she had to endure with her original family because of an urge to steal, something she could not even control.

[Query]

She lost her family, her true family, the one who didn't hate her for it but instead tried their best to help her and give her a happy life.

[Agreement]

Now, the sadness was gone, replaced by rage.

Boiling, seething, Rage.

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AN: The girl, now Loba, was originally described as Asian before the idea of making her Loba came into mind.

An interludes next up and then, the Chaos Bay arc begins.

 

[ToucanPoppyJakob]

Fastigium


2.Int


[Fastigium]

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Taylor woke up, after the Fair, she was tired, but seeing how hurt they all got she decided to get back tinkering if it meant her friends stayed safe.

Getting off the bed, she went to her kitchen and started making breakfast then took a shower, changed and got ready to work on her next weapon.

Said weapon being a sniper rifle she named the [Kraber].

After a while, her friends showed up.

"Sup sis, what you doin," he looked over her shoulder "ooh, what is it, por favor tell me."

Sparky started jumping, or at least, the wheel chair equivalent of it.

"Sparky, I warned you last time, don't test her." Said Charlie putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Its fine," Taylor waved dismissively "I actually wanted to talk to you guys about something related to this, do you guys know about Flechette?"

"You mean the ward," a nod "not much; her power is pretty strong I guess."

"Flechette and Parian is the OTP." Said Sparky.

"What are you talking about; they haven't ever interacted, at least from what I can tell."

"You watch, watch I tell you, they are so gonna get together and I will bet on it too."

"Your wallets funeral." Said Charlie smugly.

"Alright were getting off topic, so, you know how her power lets her ignore physics to some degree," the both nodded "Well this thing paired with Flechette could, in the best scenario, damage and even kill an Endbringer."

They both stared at her before Sparky said what they were both thinking.

"Madre de Dios."

Well in Spanish anyway.

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[Thread]

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Sabah got back to her apartment after another advertisement job.

It was not as much as the last but it was good enough for now, and, she still had a couple more for some other stores and companies this November, so she would be good.

Taking out her laptop, she looked on PHO for anything new.

PRT PR

Gang activity

Apex

Ah, right, she remembered reading about those four.

A team of a Speedster, a vigilante, a cheerful robot and their leader, the tinker known as Fastigium.

They did not seem that bad honestly, she would not mind meeting them one d-

Lily was suddenly calling her.

Crap, she looked like, well, crap.

Bad joke aside; she fixed her hair and clothes before accepting the call.

"Hey Lily!"

"Hi Sabah, are you good?"

"Yeah, bit bored, the last job went fine."

"Good," Lily sat there for a second "hey, um, can I ask you something?"

"Oh sure." Said Sabah.

"Well, Christmas is coming and I wanted to, you know, go on a date?" muttered Lily.

"What?" Sabah was blushing; she did not just say what she thought she said right?

"Go on a date," said Lily a bit loudly "I-I mean, if you want that, you know?"

Sabah was steaming red.

"Uh, s-sure, yeah, mhm, definitely, naeam." Said Sabah.

The call ended, Sabah looked back, sitting there before…

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

Sabah was the most useless lesbian.

Ever.

Of all time.

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[Enthrallment]

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Alec was just enjoying his video games while Rachel was chilling with her dogs to the side.

It was peaceful until Lisa came in.

She looked more serious instead of her usual 'look at me, I'm smarter than everyone else' look.

"Alec, Rachel, come with me, were gonna have a team meeting, Brian's already there," before he could complain about being interrupted she said "I don't wanna hear it, this is important."

Alec could only groan, eh, fuck it; it wasn't an online game so he guessed he could spare the time.

Entering the meeting room with Rachel, he saw Lisa and Brian sat down at the table.

"BOO!"

Alec did not jump in fear no he did not.

"Who the hell are you?"

"She," started Brian "is our new teammate, Imp."

Imp was dressed in dark clothing with a demon mask, her strand of colored hair popping off all of it.

"And also the cooler Laborn sibling." taking off her mask, showing a young black girl.

"Cooler sibling, and how can you prove that?" asked Alec smugly.

"I'm the reason Lisa can't find her socks for the past week." She said with the biggest shit-eating grin ever.

"Did we just become best friends?" asked Alec, already knowing the answer.

"Yup."

"Could you shut up, Lisa has something important to tell us." Said Brian.

"Thank you Brian, anyways, what I called you here for is something very important."

"Our boss is Coil, and I have come up with a plan," Alec didn't really feel the surprise like Brian did "lately he's become more cocky, he's also gave us another job, if we do this job right then he'll be more arrogant than ever."

"Why are you telling us this?"

"Because we're gonna help cause chaos in the bay, disorientating him, then we'll kill him and steal all of his money."

Most of the group sat there speechless until…

"Fuck yeah, anarchy baby!"

Alec had to do it he just had to.

"If it makes it any better it'll help save a little girl too."

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AN: And so the Chaos Bay arc begins.

The arc will focus more on the Undersiders planning to get Coil.

I also want to try to see if I can get a beta reader but I don't know.

Posts will also be sparser because of school starting again on Monday.

This was a lot longer than I expected it to be, hot damn.

Also, also, pretty sure this makes 10k words.

WOOHOO!

 

[ToucanPoppyJakob]

Fastigium


3.1

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Lisa was getting ready to leave for the mission, her costume on and mask in her hand.

Looking around she saw the others in their costumes.

The mission was simple, crash the Dallon's party and steal from all those fat cats and book it, get in get out.

It would've been easy if the Dallon's didn't have powers, luckily only Brandish and her kids would be there since some of them would be gone for some other thing.

That other thing being a fluke by Lisa to lessen their numbers.

After a bit they were all in costumes, they took off, sneaking through the city.

Eventually, they reached the venue where the party was being held, activating her fluke she saw Flashbang and the Pelhams leaving.

They would have to hurry it up.

Rachel had mutated all three of her dogs, ordering all but one of them to leap into the building.

The Undersider's got on the third as it leaped into the building, inside they saw all the civilians cowering, too afraid to move, while one of Rachel's dogs manhandling Glory Girl and the other pinning Brandish down.

They all got to work, quickly stealing every single valuable thing they could.

Before they could leave Brandish and Glory Girl got out.

"Brutus, hurt!" commanded Rachel.

Brutus slammed Glory Girl before going in to bite Brandish, only for the hero to turn into a golden sphere.

Rachel cursed under her breath, Lisa saw Glory Girl getting back up.

All the civilians left already.

"Brutus, hurt!"

Brutus only took a second before slamming into the sphere, sending it flying out the window and far away.

"Home run!" said Alec, while failing to mimic the tune of the game.

"Regent, shut up we have to go." Said Brian getting ready to leave.

Only for Glory Girl to shoulder bash him, sending him sliding barely reaching the window.

Rachel sent another dog at Glory Girl, only for the young hero to grab the mutated dog by its top jaw and throw it back.

The dog went through the window, barely missing Brian, as all the Undersider's got to running.

Except for Lisa, who had ended up getting Panacea in a hold with a gun to her head.

Oh joy.

Now she was stopped from leaving, she looked around looking for an excuse, before looking at her hostage.

Her power started feeding information to her, and found an out.

"Let go of her," Glory Girl floated in front of her "I don't feel like making my sister heal someone like you."

Panacea winced, letting Lisa get more Information.

Lisa put on her award-winning smile and she spoke.

It felt good being the thinker, afterwards she had rejoined with the others.

"Oi, foxy, what did you say to let you go?" asked Alec.

Lisa could only laugh.

"Secret." She said, Alec could only pout.

Eventually they reached home base, Aisha grabbed some chips and sat with Alec as he booted up the console.

Rachel went to take care of her dogs and Brian sat down to rest.

Lisa went to talk with her boss.

Pulling out her burner phone, she dialed the number and waited.

"Yes?"

"It's me boss."

"Ah, Tattletale, I'll take it the mission went well."

"Yes sir, no serious problems."

"Good, I'll be calling for another job at the end of the month, have a good day."

Sighing, she got ready for her next step, acquisition of certain assets.

Those assets being three bombs by the cape known as Fuse.

Fuse was a rouge, she would build anything for the right price, the only reason she was not coerced was her partner, Mad Maggie.

Mad Maggie was a mercenary all the way from Australia, she was a tinker whose specialty seemed to be destruction considering her wrecking ball and whatever that thing she would throw onto walls was called.

She thought back to how it all started, she was in her room doing research until she had found out about a certain Thomas Calvert.

She went down a rabbit hole learning about him, until her power had filled in enough blanks that she figured it out.

Thomas Calvert was Coil.

Thus started her plan to kill the fucker, another step she had planned was the reveal of the civilian identities of the Fenrirs Chosen.

It also helped that there was a high chance the new Butcher would be coming to save his underlings.

The nomads were also making their way back from Florida to the Bay from what she had gathered.

Freedom was in her reach.

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AN: Surprise Motherfucka I'm back!

Finally figured out how I wanna write this arc.

Hope you enjoyed and please write down your criticisms.

 

[ToucanPoppyJakob]

Fastigium


3.2

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A week had passed until the day of the meeting with Fuse and Mad Maggie.

Lisa got up, putting on her cape outfit

She went to her closet and pulled out a backpack, inside was an Alexandria Lunchbox, 12 thousand dollars in it.

She headed out the bases window, Alec was still asleep, the others were at their own places, running around the alleys of the Bay, and avoiding the occasional Skinhead, she eventually reached the meeting place, an old factory.

Entering inside she walked around until reaching the office, opening the door she was greeted with two women, one was wearing a punk rock outfit with a bandana and googles, the other in a male Japanese school uniform, her face covered by a gas mask and helmet.

"Hello Tattletale, nice to meet our client face to face." Said Fuse in a Boston as she put her hands back coming closer before putting out her hand, asking wordlessly for a handshake.

Lisa shook her hand.

"Honestly, I shouldn't be too surprised you employed me for your little secret project," she put her hand to her face and laughed softly "not many tinkers are either close or good enough to do this."

Confident. Arrogant. Superiority complex.

"Of course, but I believe we should be getting to the point of this meeting, if it's no bother." Said Lisa with a friendly smile.

"Ah yes, pardon me," she said, her voice was a little bit too firm "here is order."

Fuse opened the briefcase, presenting two different devices each with a timer.

"As you asked, the first one is a simple device, not too destructive and also may cause distress in the person who hears it for a limited time," she explained pointing to the first one "and the second will allow you to pass through that weak little shield and also make anything in its radius seem invisible to the point that anything in its radius will stay the same as it had before it turned on." She finished pointing at the last one.

They were perfect.

"Deal, here is your payment." She said putting down the lunchbox on the table and opening it.

Fuse took the money and counted it before turning to Lisa.

"What is this?" she asked in an angry tone.

Angered. Feels Insulted. Anger issues.

"As I said, your payment." Said Lisa.

Fuse grabbed Lisa, shaking her.

"That's it, 12 fucking Thousand?!" shouted Fuse.

"Fuse, stop it!" said Maggie in an authoritative tone.

Fuse stopped.

"12 thousand is enough." She said grabbing the Lunchbox.

Fuse only grumbled before leaving.

Sighing, Maggie got ready to leave before stopping next to Lisa.

"Sorry about that sheila, I'm the only one who has kept her in check; she's quite nice under all that."

Patting her shoulder, Maggie left the somewhat scared Lisa there before she grabbed the briefcase and headed back to base.

Just a couple more steps to go.

New York…

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Sparky was having the time of his life.

It had all started with a simple run around the city as Octane, can't get tired running with metal legs, until he had found an old building with about 6 to 10 guys who were talking about something.

They were also planning some sort of heist.

Ever the adrenaline junkie and hero he jumped in there told them his best joke for the situation and before he knew it, he had knocked out four people and was hopping around all over the place.

After finally beating them all, he called the police, normally he would wait but he felt like checking out the place.

After a minute, he had found something on one of the men that caught his interest.

It seemed like a normal briefcase; the only weird thing about it was that its handle was in the shape of the Ohm symbol.

Picking it up he opened it to find four vials of some strange liquid.

While a part of him wanted him to drink it, shut up intrusive thoughts, his mother taught him better than that.

So he closed it and took it with him, to show it to his friends.

His common sense could get a bit finicky sometimes.

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AN: Uh oh, spaghettio.

Anyways hope you enjoyed!

 

[ToucanPoppyJakob]

Fastigium


3.3

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Lisa got on the small dinghy, it was the day after her meeting with Fuse and Maggie, opening the box, the two devices made by Fuse were there, bringing one out she placed it in the middle of the boat.

Activating it, she turned on the boat and directed it to the Rig, Lisa thought back to her life so far.

Ever since Reggie and leaving her family, her life had become a rollercoaster of ups and downs, Coil was probably the biggest, and creepiest, asshole she had ever met, and she had met Alec!

After a while, she finally reached the shield of the Rig, something it wore with pride, like a big 'fuck you' to anyone trying to destroy it.

"Alright Fuse, you better hope this works." She muttered to herself as her dinghy slowly approached the shield.

Her boat came closer and closer until…

She went through.

Sighing in relief she arrived at the leg of the Rig, pulling out the second bomb, she placed it on the leg before spinning the boat around and going back to shore.

Finally reaching shore side, she changed into civilian clothes, putting her cape outfit in the box she walked through the city until she reached her base.

Entering she saw Alec was watching some movie, Aisha sat with him, Brian was stitching up his costume of a small hole and Rachel was feeding her dogs.

"Lisa," she looked at Brian "where were you?"

"I was setting up the thing, put your costumes on we have to be quick."

Alec was a bit annoyed that he could not watch more of Step ford Wives but obliged and put on his outfit.

Leaving the base, Lisa directed them where to go, reaching Coils base.

"Why are we at an Endbringer Shelter?" asked Brian.

"This is his base." Responded Lisa.

Lisa dragged them to a spot hidden away near the base.

"So, out of curiosity, what where you setting up anyway?" asked Alec in a dry tone.

Lisa only smile as she pulled out the detonator.

She also pulled out earplugs.

"Put these on, just in case."

"Okay then?" said Aisha, obviously confused.

After they all put them on, even the dogs, she brought up the detonator and clicked it.

The ground rumbled as they all stumbled.

Lisa took out her earplugs.

"What the hell was that?!" shouted Brian.

"The thing I was setting up."

"You didn't say blowing up the Rig was a part of it!"

"Well yeah, that was the point."

They all just stared at her.

"Explain yourself, now." Said Rachel.

"I needed to make a fake plan for you guys because Coil sometimes tortures us for information," they all stayed silent "his power is like, creating two different paths and he can discard them to make a new one, if you knew the true plan he would've taken care of you all, but with a different plan he is prepared for something that won't even happen."

The Undersiders only stood there silently.

"Before you say anything, he's here."

They all looked to see a car driving a bit franticly on the road before it reached the entrance of the base.

"Were gonna charge in when the door opens, and, well, I guess we'll wing it."

She got an angry sound Brian.

Several minutes later because I am shit at writing a fight scene like this…

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Lisa stood there, multiple mercenaries on the ground; she was in a lot of fucking pain but…

As she looked at Coil barely standing, blood stuck to his suit, she could only smile.

This was amazing.

"I must say," he coughed "this was well done, even with all my contingencies, you beat me."

"Was it worth it?" Asked Coil, no, Thomas as he started to cough up a storm.

"All the fucking way."

She pulled the trigger.

Thomas Calvert's body fell on the ground, blood started to pool, Lisa only turned around and went through the base, she had already taken all his money.

Reaching the entrance, she saw the others there.

Alec made a dumb joke, Aisha laughed, Brian took care of her wounds and Rachel only gave a shit about her dogs.

Dinah was there too, just sitting there.

Yeah, they weren't really her friends but they grew on her.

"In the name of the law, put your hands up!"

They all stared out to see the PRT and all of their capes, excluding the wards.

Before anything could happen, they heard a banging sound.

Lisa turned back as she saw all the way at the back the wall was being dented.

Bang.

Bang.

It kept on banging and banging until a large hole was made.

Out of the wall came tentacles, limbs, mouths, eyes heads and on top a naked girl with long blond hair, she looked starved.

The girl, no, the monster looked up and she roared.

"Run!"

Elsewhere…

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The four sat there, looking at the vials of weird liquid.

"So, you found it while stopping some thugs who were conspiring on doing a heist?"

"Si."

"And you decided that the best course of action was to take these vials and bring it here."

"Si."

Taylor only sat there looking at the vials.

"I think we should keep it hidden somewhere for now."

Taylor looked at Charlie.

"Sure, let's go with that."

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AN: Echidna fight lets fucking goooooooooooooooooo!!

I also apologize for not writing the fight scene in the base because I really had no idea how to write the damn thing.

I wrote this at 10 fucking PM

And as always, see ya next chapter.

 

[ToucanPoppyJakob]

Fastigium


3.4

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The Undersiders were riding on the mutant dogs as if their lives depended on it, the hero's had nabbed Dinah and took her with them.

"So," started Alec conversationally "what's the plan."

"The plan," Lisa pulled out a USB "is right here."

Alec only stared at her.

"What?" asked Lisa.

"What is it?" asked Alec.

"It's a USB."

"Well yeah I can see that but what's it do?"

"Until I can get to a computer or a laptop or something that will be for me to know and for you to find out."

Alec just mimicked a pout.

"Don't do that to me, you're not the one with a headache after seeing that thing."

Finally reaching the rendezvous point, they all got off the three mutant dogs.

"Someone get me a laptop and some coffee now, this is important."

Brian came back with both, Lisa took a sip before opening the laptop, turning it on and plugging the USB.

"Lisa," Brian sat down "what is this?"

"During the whole fight, when I had gotten the money, I had found a file in a safe with this USB in it, take a looksee."

They all looked at the files popping on the screen and showed…

All the Fenrirs chosen and their civilian identities.

"Holy shit." Said Aisha in a hushed tone.

"Exactomundo."

They all just stood there.

"Well, I believe we should put a vote on if we do it or not."

"Do it." Said Rachel immediately with a somewhat pleased tone.

"What no, we can't do this." Said Brian.

"Bro, I know what you're like, but please, these guys are fucking Nazis and they have made our lives just a little bit worse, aint beatin our home lives obviously." Said Aisha

"I really don't care which way it goes, it just better not get me killed." Said Alec.

Brian could only sigh.

"Fine, but this on you Lisa, got it."

"Wouldn't have it any other way."

Lisa turned back to the laptop, took the files and got to work; it was several minutes later that with one button press the Fenrirs chosen fell.

It was also with several minutes later that she was in front of the giant monster who it was probably her fault she escaped.

"You killed him, you killed my only chance to be normal again." The monster's human part spoke with an unnervingly calm tone.

"In my defense, he put a gun to my head and let's not forget the girl." Lisa said, grasping for a chance to escape.

"Do you think I give, a single, flying, FU-" before she could finish her sentence, a beam of light hit her face before Lisa felt herself get grabbed by something.

Looking up she saw Octane, the hero from New York.

"Uh, not that I'm ungrateful but why are you here?" she asked her savior.

"Oh that is a whole thing I do not have the time to explain chica."

However, I do…

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Sparky was watching the TV, channel surfing as usual.

Pathfinder was on patrol but only because he was with a ward, and the two girls had called Legend because they wanted to give it to him to investigate since this didn't seem like a job for the policìa.

It was a bit of a bummer, but, he wasn't that stupid, sure he loved the feeling of adrenaline pumping through his veins but his mama taught him better than that, his papa…

It still hurt thinking about him; he wonders what happened to him that day.

He had stopped on the news, it seemed normal and he would have switched channels before it had mentioned…

Echidna.

Present…

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"Just be happy I came, my friends would've joined but they aren't fast enough."

They had gotten to a safe distance after enough running.

"Wait, I know you're a speedster but you're not as fast as Velocity, how did you get here so fast?"

"That's, and as much I hate to admit it, the perks of being slower," he pulled out the weapon he shot the monster with "helps me see opportunities."

"And by that you mean?"

He just shrugged.

"I see."

"Well it was nice to meet you but I'm on S&R duty so, yeah, see ya, corre corre Octane." And just like that, he took off.

Lisa just stood there.

"Is that you're new boyfriend?" said Aisha appearing out of nowhere.

"SONUVA-"

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AN: Finally, another chapter done.

After this is 3.5 and the interlude.

After, after that is the festive arc, which will probably just slice of life to slow down a bit before, Mag Mazowski comes.

Get it?

See ya!

 

[ToucanPoppyJakob]

Fastigium


3.5

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"So, what are we gonna do?" asked Aisha.

"Well, we need to regroup with the others first and then find safety, wait for all this to die out and leave our own separate ways."

They kept walking through the city alleyways.

"Hey, psst," they both looked up to see Fuse and Mad Maggie on a roof with the other Undersiders "come on up."

A metal latter was dropped down as Lisa and Aisha climbed up and met with the others.

Brian immediately hugged Aisha, earning a groan from her.

"Hey Tats, lookin like shit I see." Snarked Alec.

"Ugh, shut up Regent."

She looked at Fuse to see she was wearing an armor-plated outfit, with a rocket launcher and rockets on the ground next to her.

"Ah, we meet again Tattletale," she interrupted Lisa "ap, ap, ap, I haven't finished speaking, Tattletale as we all know the death of Coil has released the cape designated as Echidna, she has also become an S-class threat and therefore has a bounty on her head, which is why I have gotten you all here."

They all lined up together.

"The problem is that while I can very much destroy Echidna with these incendiary rockets, I cannot get to her because she has her own guards called the Travelers, I believe you have worked with them before."

"Not really, they did their thing, we did ours, but we do know their powers though so we should be well off." Said Lisa.

"Good, it'll be actually easier since a lot cape have come to this fight; problem is that some get too close and get cloned, I would like you to keep separate them from Echidna so that I can come in and take down Echidna, and I shall humbly give you a small percentage of the bounty."

"Sorry Fuse but we'll have to decline, were already stinking rich form ki-"Alec was interrupted from continuing as a gun was put to his face.

"I was not asking." Said Fuse.

"Fine we'll do it, at least with that the chance of dying would be smaller." Said Lisa.

Several minutes later…

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Lisa and Brian had set up near where Trickster was, Rachel went after Genesis and Alec after Ballistic.

Perdition and Sundancer were nowhere to be found.

"So we sneak up on him, I blind him and we ask where the other two members are, right?"

Lisa gave him a thumbs up.

They made their way towards Trickster's location, passing by stores and apartment building, eventually reaching the building he was located in; they snuck through the corridors until reaching where they could hear him on the phone.

Brian pulled out a piece of cloth while Lisa pulled out a gun.

Brian busted the door open as he filled the room with smoke, blinding Lisa.

When the smoke cleared, it was shown to be a fake, they heard a laugh as they turned around to see Trickster with a knife in his hands, until said knife changed into a gun and was about to shoot Lisa.

"Lisa no!"

Brian pushed her away; she fell on the ground as Brian was shot in the chest area.

Lisa chucked the knife in anger; it flew through the air before being stuck in Tricksters throat.

Lisa quickly rushed to Brian's side.

"Brian I know were not really friends but just stay with me!" said Lisa in a rush as she dashed to Tricksters body and tore off some of his cloak.

"Lisa."

"Don't say a goddamn word okay; your sister fucking needs you!"

"Lisa."

"Don't worry I'll get you to saf-"

"Lisa!"

She stopped as she stared at him, his helmet taken off.

"Please," he started coughing blood "take care of Aisha for me."

His eyes slowly closed as a sad smile formed on his face.

It took Lisa all she could to stop crying after five minutes.

She left that building with his helmet, she got a call that the others got their targets as she saw from a distance Fuse and Mad Maggie on a truck, Fuse in the back, as they fired at Echidna, her body mass starting to burn as she exploded from the insides.

They had won, but at what cost.

Lisa regrouped with the others, Rachel was already planning to go to New York since Octane had saved her dog Brutus from dying, Alec was going to enjoy some time in Hawaii and Aisha was about to say something before she saw her brothers helmet.

Aisha slowly approached as she grabbed it, tears started to flow from her eyes, as she looked at Lisa.

"Did you get him?"

"Yeah."

Aisha just hugged her as she let it all out.

A while later they met up back at their base.

"So, Brian's dead, that fucking sucks." Said Alec.

"He was our leader, also the least annoying." Said Rachel.

Lisa sat down next to Aisha.

"How could he fucking die like that." Said Aisha, tears being restrained.

"I'm sorry."

They all sat there mourning.

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AN: And so this arc finishes, the next chapter is an interlude as said last time.

Then I'll give you guys a break from the action.

See ya.

 

[ToucanPoppyJakob]

Fastigium


3.Int


[Fastigium]

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Taylor was sitting down on her workshop, finishing the [Kraber]; it would be sometime before December started, everyone else was busy with other stuff.

Charlie was visiting the statue of Liberty since she had not gone to see it yet; Pathfinder was on patrol with the wards, there were a lot more of them since the Echidna incident and the reveal of the Fenrirs chosen civilian identities and Sparky was at the medicine house working the register.

That meant she could enjoy some peace and quiet, she loved her team but they could get on her nerves sometimes, what with Sparky's stunts and Pathfinder being a child.

Charlie was fine though, she was fun to talk to about things like their favorite books.

After five full minutes she was finally done, the [Kraber] was a 50 cal. Sniper rifle designed to be used by Flechette against the Endbringers, her power and this sniper could heavily damage them, it could give humanity the chance at killing one of them after so long.

Happy with her work, she sat up and went towards the computer to check if there were any new messages, she saw one from Emma.

(1) New Message!

From Emma:

Hey Tay, how is it going? I saw that your Octane friend was here in the Bay.

He was so cool! He's not as fast as Velocity but still.

I'm okay too, my family and me got to safety early.

Hey, I thought about visiting you, can I? I really want to meet Pathfinder, oh im just gonna spoil him rotten.

Is this what it feels like to be an Aunt?

Anyways, message me back kay?

Love Ems <3.

Taylor couldn't help but laugh as she typed out her response.

To Emma:

Of course you can come over, just don't let Uncle Alan make the turkey again, I swear I thought I was gonna die if I would've eaten it when we were kids.

Love Tay <3.

Now to shop for groceries.

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[Phantasm]

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Charlotte was at the statue of Liberty's island, finishing a hot cup of coffee, the statue was absolutely humongous, bigger than any Endbringer, it made her think what would happen if it became sentient and became one of them.

It would probably the worst of them honestly.

"Enjoying the view?"

Charlotte turned to see an Asian girl, around her age, standing next to her.

"Yeah, I'm not a tourist though, been living here for over a month, hadn't gotten to see it yet though."

"Still a tourist."

"Oh screw you." Charlotte lightly punched the girl in the shoulder.

"Ha, an old man hits harder than you," okay, Charlotte was getting pissed "here."

The girl gave Charlotte a card for a gym called 'NYC Fitness'.

"Most people go to Planet Fitness but I think it's overrated, name's Lily by the way."

"Lily, like Yuri?"

The girl just laughed.

"Well aren't you educated."

"Oh and my name's Charlotte."

"Charlotte, like the spider?"

"You cheeky little…" Charlotte pointed her finger at her.

They stood there silent before bursting into laughter.

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[Coruscant]

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Connor walked, in costume, through the halls of the PRT building, greeting staff when passing them before reaching his private quarters.

Closing the door, he turned off the lights and spoke.

"Door to Cauldron Meeting Room."

A large rectangle portal formed in front of him lighting up the room with purple light, stepping through he saw the white marble hallway towards the meeting room, the glass ceiling opaque as always.

Walking through the hallway, dear god did it need some décor, he crossed paths with David and Rebecca, giving each other a short hello they entered the room to be greeted with the sight of Contessa, Doctor Mother and the Numberman already sat down.

"Are we starting?" It was rhetorical and everyone knew it.

"No, we still have to wait for him."

As soon as she finished her sentence, in came a tall man in a coat, fedora and green tinted glasses.

"Good evening, or is it good morning?" said the man with amusement "it doesn't matter." His voice becoming serious.

Doctor Mother only smiled.

"Good to see you too…

Eduardo Silva."

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AN: Dun Dun Dun!

I fixed an error on 2.3 where Taylor said she was fifteen instead of sixteen.

See ya!

 

[ToucanPoppyJakob]

This is the head art.
Edit: Image broken.

 

[ToucanPoppyJakob]

Fastigium

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4.1

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Taylor had been watching TV at the time when an idea struck her, ever since she started her hero career, her and her friends kept being injured. This brought over the idea of some type of huge tank that could create a shield around the body of someone who used it.

She pulled out her phone and sent a message for Sparky and Charlie to come over to the base.

The idea had reminded her of when during the last days of November after the Echidna incident…

A few days ago…

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Taylor was cleaning up Pathfinder after he was covered from mud during a patrol, it luckily did not get inside him, and it was then that Sparky came in hopping on one metal since the other one was somewhat broken.

"Dangit Sparky, how many times have I told you not to jump so much?"

Sparky only sighed.

"I know, I know, but it's so much fun." He said that sentence like a little child.

"Please listen to mom Uncle Sparky." Said Pathfinder, his chassis screen changing to a worried look.

"Well I'm done anyway so I might as well."

When she took off Sparky's broken metal leg an idea came to her.

"Hey Sparky?"

"Si sis?"

"How do you feel about hopping like a rabbit?"

Sparky's smile was shining.

Present…

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She did not know if she should regret that choice or not. But then again now she only had to do maintenance every now and then instead of constantly repairing it.

"Ola sis, were here!" barked Sparky loudly causing Taylor to fall off the couch.

"Damnit Sparky," said Charlie as she smacked him across the back of the head, almost making him fall off his wheel chair "don't just scream like a maniac."

"Sorry."

Taylor got up, dusting herself off.

"Anyways, before I was scared half to death by a certain someone," Sparky drooped his shoulders "I was gonna ask you guys to buy some stuff, I need to make something."

Sparky got his, well, spark back as he looked at her.

"What do you need?"

"Here."

Taylor wrote on a piece of paper then passed it to them.

Chemicals

Gallons of water.

Empty propane tanks.

Blue paint.

And…

"D batteries?" said Sparky in a confused tone.

Taylor shrugged, causing him and Charlie to give her a look.

"Why are you looking at me like that, this is Tinker tech, and what do you want me to do? Make it make sense or what?"

They decided to sleep on that.

"Also, what chemicals specifically?"

Charlotte got her answer with Taylor just blankly staring at her.

"Anyways, I'm gonna go get the water and blue paint. Charlotte, you go get the Chemicals and Propane tanks and Sparky, go get the batteries."

"How many?" asked both Charlotte and Sparky, the former for the tanks and the latter for the batteries.

"A," Taylor looked around to see if her son was here "fuck ton."

They all left to get their respective items.

With Sparky…

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Sparky was wheeling through the city looking for D batteries. He had mostly found them in different gas stations; the only problem was that they were so damn expensive.

After enough time he had arrived at a road with two stores across from each other, one red and one blue.

He decided to check out the red one.

Entering it, he could hear the faint sound of rock music coming from the radio at the register.

"A customer!"

Sparky almost fell off his wheel chair when a southern voice shouted out.

He looked to see an old man with a crew cut hair and bug beard, an eye patch on his left eye.

"Um, hi?"

"Hi there youngster, what can I get ya? I'm the only one here right now, Grif is being a lazy bastard and Simmons is getting me a coffee."

"Uh, yeah, do you sell D batteries, all the stores I've checked charge way too much."

"Wait, you think Gas station D batteries cost too much?"

"Yeah?"

"Finally! Someone who agrees with me! I mean seriously they're so stupidly high, if it weren't illegal I'd shoot their faces off with my shotgun."

"How cheap are they?"

"A dollar fifty."

"Damn," they stood there in silence "can I buy all of them?"

"Hell yes."

Needless to say, Sparky was confused for the rest of the day on the whole interaction he had with the old man.

With Charlotte…

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Charlotte was having a hard time finding a store that was selling what she needed; most clerks just gave her a confused look. It was while walking through the road near Queens that she saw 'Plug's Butt ugly stuff hut', which made her laugh in a nostalgic and sad tone.

She remembered when she first saw the store, she could not stop laughing at the name that she just had to go in to see for herself what was up.

What was up was the nicest but also weirdest old man she had ever met.

However, she noticed something weird; the store said it was open.

Walking towards it, she entered to see the shop lit up and stocked up on random things as always. And Plug was behind the counter.

"Wait, Plug, you're here? Why?"

The old man smiled.

"Why wouldn't I be here, this is my store."

"But you said you were gonna die tomorrow like, three times yesterday."

"Well it's not tomorrow, it's today." Said Plug in a matter-of-fact way.

Charlotte's brain sorta just short-circuited right then and there.

Charlotte just shook her head, no need to get into that confusing thing.

"Anyways, you got any empty propane tanks and chemicals?"

"Oh yeah, I got a bunch of em', I can sell them to you for cheap."

"Thanks so much. Hey, could you bring the tanks and chemicals with your truck? I don't think I can get it all alone."

"Oh sure sweetie, just let me finish my shift."

"OF course. Oh here is the address by the way." She pulled out an unused tissue paper, she gestured her fingers for a pen, which he gave her, letting her write the address down.

Giving him the money, she said goodbye to the weird old man she could not help but find charming.

With Taylor…

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Taylor got the things she needed and nothing weird happened. The end.

The next day…

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Sparky and Charlotte came to find Pathfinder shooting Taylor. They were about to panic and charge in before they saw, a blue electrical force field appear as it cracked a little bit when iy stopped the bullet.

They both stood there in shock.

"Like it? I call them shield cells."

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AN: And arc 4 is here.

As you can tell, this arc is more slice of lifey than the last three, it will also have references here and there.

See ya!