EDIT: I don't know if the edit is fine, but I can't really think of anything else to add there, unless I delete the whole chapter and replace it with another one...
'Somehow'? If Lisa has access to medical records she should know.
Its also a little badly worded.
a brain scan that he had taken some years ago after Blank to check for any complications, which showed that he has the potential to trigger.
Maybe a fight or a car accident or workplace injury etc. Something that would give a concussion, and thus a reason to check without giving danny long-term issues.
@Levelgap - That was a good chapter. I liked Lisa's perspective as lent clarity to Tom's decision to focus on Danny and Taylor.
I am looking forward to reading as Taylor tracks down Tom's bunker. I wonder what else she will find during her quest to find and takedown Coil.
Because the sons and daughters of parahumans always have the ability to trigger. Even if that parent hadn't triggered yet the child can trigger, thats why QA was monitoring Taylor when it wanted to connect its main self to Danny, then it switched its main self to Taylor.
Taylor was connected to QA, and monitored by QA, before danny Triggered / QA switched.
The plan changed from 'Danny = Main shard and Taylor = Bud at some point to Taylor = Main shard, Danny basically given up on.
Also of note is that siblings have triggered together, rather than after eachover and that is the same mechanic according to Wildbow.
So theoretically a parent and child could trigger together, but triggers are rare above 30 and we see very little 2nd gen parahumans in the first place.
As he turned to look at it, he saw the windows breaking as if someone smashes it with a hard blunt object. He grinned. "So your there!" He roared, before charging on that place.
I have a couple of questions, I'm not sure if they've been answered.
1. Aren't there any male Taylors? Taylor could use a male version of herself to speak to people so they don't recognize her. If not can't she just have multiple Taylors talk in different keys at the same time to disguise her real voice?
2. If a thousand Alternate Taylors punched the same place at the exact same time, would the collective punches be more powerful?
1. Aren't there any male Taylors? Taylor could use a male version of herself to speak to people so they don't recognize her. If not can't she just have multiple Taylors talk in different keys at the same time to disguise her real voice?
Taylor was connected to QA, and monitored by QA, before danny Triggered / QA switched.
The plan changed from 'Danny = Main shard and Taylor = Bud at some point to Taylor = Main shard, Danny basically given up on.
Also of note is that siblings have triggered together, rather than after eachover and that is the same mechanic according to Wildbow.
So theoretically a parent and child could trigger together, but triggers are rare above 30 and we see very little 2nd gen parahumans in the first place.
Maybe becose less than 15% parahumans alive after 30 and they live without families.
But all childs Heartbreaker born after trigger and all can triggered. Also New Wave - They all born after parents triggered.
Wildboy change position several times when write (maybe need before write book checked dogmates).
Ahh. Well you'll get better. I'd suggest looking up several of your favorite authors and see if that writing style is something you can benefit from. Also look up other styles. Then you start working on your own.
On a small money exchanging business within the Downtown, Circus is there standing while waiting for the cashier to pile up the bag that she have full of their money.
Currently there is no work coming from her, so she has been doing some minor crimes to get by.
"There... that's all of it! Please don't hurt me!"
She is glad that she studied this small shop. He knows this guy is not truly an owner, but just a part timer that the owner hired a few weeks ago. After learning when is his shift, and whether he is loyal to this shop or not, she decided to take the shot and rob this store.
It's very easy when the shop she is robbing have staffs who doesn't have a strong inclination to protect the shop at all cost. It makes it easier for her to do simple things like this.
"Hand it to me." She simply said, while playfully conjuring fire on her hand and letting it vanish.
The guy quickly nodded before handing it to her carefully. After her hand brushes through the sling of that shoulder bag, it vanishes to her hammerspace.
"Welp, I'm out of here." She simply said with a salute, before quickly leaving the door with her nimble body.
It's really easy for her. She is planning to go back to her hideout, count the money she got, and treat herself to something when her vision changes into another.
It felt like a transition. When she takes a step outside of the shop, her vision changes into that of a place within some sort of a small dilapidated room. The only light source being the glassless window in front of her.
She also noticed that her limbs are bound on a chair that she is surprisingly sitting on. In front of her, a white board suddenly occurs, before words just appears on it as if someone typed it out.
"I know you work for Coil. Where is his base?"
She blinks her eyes for a bit, before slowly realizing that she was in fact kidnapped to this place. Her eyes panicked for a moment, before quickly calming down as she tries to smile. Though her lips are a bit strained as she tries smiling.
"... First of all, may I know who you are?" She asks while trying to think of how she can get out of here.
She can simply put the chair and the cords binding her arms on her hammerspace whenever she wants, but she doesn't know if she can run away without knowing who is her opponent. She didn't even know how she suddenly finds herself in this state, when she is just leaving that small shop.
She thinks she have to stall for some time, acquire some info, and making sure that she can actually have a valid escape route before she tries escaping.
The words on the white board immediately vanishes and were replaced with another after she blinks her eyes.
"I am what the people who calls as Poltergeist. Now, answer me. Where is Coil's base?"
'Poltergeist!?' She knows of that name, it is the rising star of the Cape scene. The mysterious Stranger who can defeat Lung, and heal a bunch of people in a hospital.
She also heard they caused the disbandment of a small gang, though she is not privy to those kind of news. It's a minor gang so she actually didn't care.
She also thinks they might be a group of people, as the sheer potency and variety of the Poltergeist Cases are so varied that it can't be done by a single Cape at all. Unless they are Eidolon. Though it's impossible for someone of Eidolon's level to suddenly appear out of nowhere.
'Crap... did I get swept up by someone's Cape Conflict!?'
She knows of Coil. She has work for him for some time, and acquire generous payments from him whenever she succeed in her work. She actually likes working with him as Coil only asks for some mundane, albeit weird types of work.
Works like causing a commotion on a parking area, or lighting fire on an Empire stash is one of those mundane things she is talking about. Despite only doing something simple, Coil always give a lot of money to her when the work is done.
Though she isn't really Coil's henchmen. No, she likes her freedom that much. She only works for him whenever he calls for her. So long as he will pay her, then she will do it.
Is it worth it to protect Coil from Poltergeist? Actually no... that's impossible!
She might as well just answer Poltergeist honestly. Though, there is a problem...
"Sorry.... I don't have any idea where his base is located...." She said with a troubled smile.
It is the truth. Whenever Coil calls her, he only tells her what he needs to do and just transfer some money to her after the job is done. He doesn't even invite her on his base.
The few times she was invited, she was always taken there in a car with the windows that doesn't show anything on the outside. So she don't know how they are getting to that large underground base when they got to his base.
"Are you telling the truth?" She reads on the board.
"Of course. I promised! I actually don't know where his base is located!" She said.
Silence occurs for a short moment, making her feel nervous about it. She wonders if she is just alone here, and is just waiting for nothing when words appears once more on the white board.
"Then... do you have an image of him?"
She blinks her eyes in wonder. 'Why image?' Though even if she tries to think about it, she just shrugs and decided to humor Poltergeist.
"I have an image of him on the phone. It's a bit blurry, but I think you can get the general features of him."
After she says that, she felt one of her hand being suddenly freed from the binding. She quickly realized what she needed to do and materializes her phone.
It is a bit hard operating the phone with one hand, but she managed with her deft fingers. Quickly, she got to the image she have of Coil. The one she took when they were in a meeting along with the other villains on Somer's Rock.
She waited for awhile, before finally asking. "Uh... is it okay now? Can you let me go?"
Silence only met her, before a simple word occurs on the white board.
"Sure....?"
After reading that while feeling confused, she suddenly blinks her eyes and almost stumbled as she finds herself in a small room.
'No...' She reevaluated as she realizes, it's not just a room. It's a jail!
After that realization alone, alarm blares occurs around the place and then some muzzles on the corner of the ceilings pointed at her.
Without being able to react, she has been quickly apprehended by a lot of foams. Thomas quickly takes his phone as he heard it ringing. He is still working on his office when he got it.
"What is it?"
"Ah.... Boss... your body double... he has been captured by the PRT!"
".... What!?"
Finally, I managed to update this again. I thought I can't update this anymore as I lost all of my drafts about this...
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Ok, Coil just needs to admit a loss, go to ground for a little while, and not try to get the double out because Taylor is probably watching.
Wait this is Coil, he is definitely going to throw good money after bad, isn't he? Be funny if Thomas gets arrested as Calvert doing illegal things trying to assist his double who was arrested as Coil. Thomas Calvert, the lackey and inside man to the brilliant mastermind Coil.
Yeah I definitely saw the body double thing coming.
I'll reread this eventually because it took me a sec to remember what her power was.... or almost anything else about the story besides the fact Coils power and her power interfere with each others in a way and she want him gone because he kept trying to kill her dad.
A week has passed since his body double has been taken into the PRT custody. The fate of his body double is unknown as the PRT as the higher ups are very tight lipped about it.
Thomas can't even use his timeline splitting because it always abruptly stops whenever he uses it. So he can only do things discreetly.
Talking about discreetly, he was waiting for Accord's reply. He is friends with one of the villain factions on Boston, and that person considers him as an acquaintance. He wanted some sort of plan to take care of Poltergeist, as he can't even get the down on him regardless of how many attempts he tries to do.
Just when he is thinking about that, he heard his phone ringing. It's just at the right time as he was inside one of his safe houses. He didn't have work on the PRT today, and he didn't want to go to his bunker in fear of letting Poltergeist secretly following him somehow.
So he chose his safehouse. If Poltergeist is following him, then they won't know that he is the true Coil. He will just be a random PRT consultant who goes back to his home and taking a rest within his house.
He is sure that Poltergeist won't have all the time in the world to just gaze at him. So after glancing around his room, and even going as far as locking his room and covering all the windows with the curtains, he finally takes the call.
"... The files you have requested from us have been delivered. I will be waiting for your end of the deal."
It's the voice of a woman, which he quickly recognizes.
"I'm grateful. I'll quickly ship you your new recruit!" He said, his frown lessening but not vanishing from his lips.
After that the call ended. His eyes staring at the phone for a moment before making another call.
"Yes Boss?"
"Transfer the new file on my database. You know what it is."
"Okay Sir."
After that call, he immediately goes to his laptop. This one is custom made to connect to his main framework on his underground base.
After quickly entering the password, and another long string of codes to deactivate the self-destruction sequence, he finally got inside his database.
His eyes quickly skims through the file he got, before lighting up maliciously.
"It's a bit of a shame that I lost Sarah for this... but if it's to get rid of you, then her loss will be worth it!" He muttered under her breathe as he glances at all the files he got, which detailed a plan for him. A week has passed since then. None of my Visions are moving differently without my prompting after Coil has been arrested. I have waited for a week, and because I don't see anyone trying to break Coil out from his containment, I think I can consider this problem as solved now.
My Dad is unaware of all of this. He is currently on a lawyer's office, discussing about what he needs to do to pull the principal, and a lot of the staffs there down. Also, to sue the school a lot for damages against my property, and also that long term bullying campaign against me.
I actually have forgotten most of that. My mind is more preoccupied at looking at the Alternate Worlds and Parallel Worlds to think of my past. I still don't like hearing any mention about them, but I mostly tend to not think about that stuff.
After my Dad is done talking to the lawyer, he drives back to our home. It only took some time before he arrives.
Lacey is still taking care of me by the way. Me (my original stiff body) and her are watching some cartoons about a hero from another city called Mouse Protector. We are eating some nachos... well, it's only Lacey who is eating it, and she is just feeding me patiently after taking her own bite.
But anyway, we are eating nachos when Dad came back.
"How is it?" Lacey stood up and asks him that, after wiping my mouth of some crumbs.
"It's good. We can proceed next week and let those people know that I won't just let things go silently." He said.
After talking for a bit more, Dad goes to me and kneeled for a bit to get in line with my sight. It's still a bit hard to move my head so I can only move my eyes with some difficulty.
"Taylor, my little owl. How are you doing? Are you eating fine?" I can only grunt with his words. "Great.... don't worry. Sooner we will get the justice you deserve. You only need to wait for a bit."
He sounds so soothing to my ears. I can see that his attention is solely focused on me and my well-being.
It makes me very happy.... but it's also sad as I can see the guilt on his face. His smile is a bit strained and weak despite forcing himself to be cheerful.
It's really those Trio's fault! Should I go take a visit and mess with them for a bit?
.... No. There is no need. That will just seem so petty...
But still, I really hope that my Dad stops looking at me guiltily everytime he tries to interact with me. I might have been mad and disappointed at my Dad when he mostly neglected me on the past, but I am fine now. He is making sure that I am always being cared for.
-As I am thinking about that, the me who is sitting on the veranda of our house notices the PRT Vans approaching our residence and then stopping just in front of our house.
-The other me sitting on the roof of our neighbors house narrowed my eyes when I saw PRT troops and even Miss Militia herself going out of those vans and approaching our house with hurried steps.
What do they want?
-A newly created Vision of an alternate of me who is standing on front of our entrance looks at them. Seeing Miss Militia knocking on our door and taking the attention of Dad and Lacey.
"Who is it?" Dad goes to the door and takes, before I heard him gasps.
-"Are you Mr. Hebert?" With my Dad's nod, she continues. "Your life is in danger, Mr. Hebert. We suggest you come with us before something bad happens to you."
Something bad? What's happening?
-I can see the confused look of my Dad as he glances at Miss Militia with a raised eyebrow. "What do you mean.... is something happening?"
-"There is someone who is claiming you are Poltergeist, and they have spread it all over the internet. We don't know if the claims are the truth, but there are others out there who might want to harm you due to those false claims. This is a serious matter, so we would really like if you come with us so we can protect you."
Someone is claiming that my Dad is me!?
-One of me who is on empty alternate version of our city, and is located on an internet cafe quickly opens one of the computers and browses the internet for a moment.
--After getting to the PHO forums, I quickly saw the most hot topic on the local forums. It is titled "I Challenge Everyone!"
--Based on what's written, this person who is acting like me literally told the whole world to go to Brockton Bay and fight them. Claiming himself to be Poltergeist or something. He even put the image of my Dad there, saying it is his civilian identity.
--Reading the comments on the forum, I can see a lot are very dismissive of these claims, though there are some who seems to be having some funny ideas. Those people's comments were quickly deleted by the mods, but I can't really drop the possibility that they might just go for my Dad.
--Surprisingly, they have all the images of my exploits. From dismantling the whole Merchants gang, to even the initial image of Lung and his gang being tied up together. There is even the image of Coil within the prison, and the image seems to be taken inside that prison.
Oh... even if I have no knowledge of taking those images, the people around didn't know that.
... Wait, isn't this bad? My Dad is being framed as me!?
I can hear my Dad slowly accepting Miss Militia's offer on the distance, with the condition that I also came along with them. So now they are putting me on a wheelchair, and preparing us to get to the PRT HQ.
Who is it? Who is framing my Dad!?
I made some new drafts to this story as I have lost all my old drafts. I don't know if this direction is good, but I hope it is...
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