[X] Answer Honestly - very lost
- [X] Prepare for combat afterwards
"I…"
Taylor took a step back, fingers wrapping around the door handle.
Just out of the corner of her metaphorical eye, she could see the giant. He stared with hate at the costumed woman, standing before Taylor. If he had been solid, she would have been completely hidden.
How does one even respond to a cape? The people who make physics and the modern understanding of reality to be nothing but play-dough in the hands of an excitable toddler?
"Yes."
Apparently, truthfully.
"I was looking for directions to the bus stop?"
This was not how Taylor was expecting her first meeting with a costumed villain would go.
"I see." A pause as she smoothly shifted her weight with a cat like grace, "Come, child. I will escort you to the nearest bus stop. These streets are dangerous for one so young, especially as the sky darkens." Kage strode forwards, walking past Taylor even as she tensed without missing a stride, hand still resting upon the hilt of her blade. "We will continue this discussion once I return, Miss Yatimata." The words were soft, barely above a whisper, yet Miss Yatimata stiffened all the same as if they had been yelled.
The woman behind the counter let out a sigh of relief as Kage left the store. "Better go, girl." She warned Taylor.
Taylor looked back at Miss Yatimata before looking at the waiting cape through the open door.
What was she going to do, say no? Who knows what the ABB cape would do to her if the woman was angered. At the very least if she had to summon her giant, doing it outside wouldn't wreck Miss Yatimata's store.
It was with that, that she left the store.
The cape was waiting outside, her dark clothing making her nearly melt into the dimming twilight.
Without a further word the ABB cape started walking,
She did not make a sound.
It took a few minutes to realize it- it wasn't something someone normally tried to keep track of. But…
There was no jingle or twang of metal moving against metal even though she could clearly see it. Nor rasp of footwear on the concrete. She would bet that even the cape's breathing was silent, if Taylor was a betting girl.
None of this did anything to reassure Taylor that this wasn't some kind of trap. Maybe she was being led to a bunch of ABB gangers for some kind of initiation rite? Or maybe to one of the other capes- one was a well known serial killer and the other was capable of fending off whole hero teams by himself. Kage, herself, already had a confirmed body count in the double digits!
Numbly, Taylor's mind couldn't help but go further down the rabbit hole. Of what the ABB did women, girls, really.
There was no way this wasn't a trap that she had walked into.
The moment she found a way to make a break away from the cape, she would summon her giant and…
...was that the bus stop?
...that was the bus stop.
Huh.
"The bus will likely arrive soon." Kage turned back once she made it to the bus stop, facing Taylor. She raised her hand, opening a fist to reveal a five dollar coin before tossing said coin to her. "This should get you outside of our territory. Do be careful. ABB often targets girls like yourself." Taylor stared at her in askance and muted suspicion as the woman continued, "your choice of clothing is good to keep a man's eyes off you. But your hair is far too feminine, consider hiding it in a braid or bun when you wear the hood. Understood?"
Taylor dumbly nodded as the armed woman started to walk back the way she came.
What in the actual hell?
Taylor kept staring at her as she slowly got lost in the decaying urban sprawl.
The whole encounter raised more questions for Taylor than she ever thought she would have had about the second in command of the Asian Bad Boyz, but that was Brockton Bay for you; if it wasn't being depressing it was doing something contradictory. Usually both.
Still, that was a villain walking away from her. A mass murderer. Who helped run a gang of slavers. And had walked a lost girl to the bus station and gave her a bus fare.
Yet, this was the whole point of the day's excursion.
What directives/orders/commands does Taylor give her power? She doesn't know how many commands it can store in a buffer or how complex they can be and will err on the simpler side.
[] Suggestions?
Author's note: IMPORTANT!!! VERY IMPORTANT!!! For this next sequence, what is going to happen, is I will open up suggestions for 24 hours or so for what commands Taylor tells the giant. After that time is up, I'll create a voting threadmark for the options that got suggested! THAT is what will be the actual vote! If the suggestions are grossly out of character, I WILL ignore them.
