“The final death toll after the coorditack by the vilins has been tallied, the firmed loss of life has risen to two hundred and eleven people spread across the sixteen locations, the chairman of the Pandora ittee and the President have called for an iional day of m tomorrow as questions mount about how the vilins who were captured during the fight will be treated,” The woman said, her voice a little hollow. Sonya gowards the s and saw bags uhe woman’s eyes, she looked away and sipped her drink again.
“Sonya ovna, CEO of ASTA corporation and the ‘Voice of the Hero Movement’ was briefly kidnapped by the vilins during the atta the New York testing ceremony, she was reportedly taken to the headquarters of the self-procimed ‘Supervilin’ Kingshark. Lised Heroes lead by Firestorm arrived at the se shortly after Handmaiden, the vilireated and Kingshark was o be found. Fortunately, Miss ovna was found exhausted but unharmed. She was debriefed and released a few ho,” The woman tinued.
Sonya tapped her manicured nails against her helmet, “Along with Miss ovhe bodies of several people who remain uified except for one who was identified as Park Beyol, a korean photographer who resumed missing after the fsh. Dental records have firmed his identity.”
Sonya’s fingers stopped moving, “Photographer, mm? You have a hobby?” She asked the empty room.
Behihe dark coalesced, an inky mass that rose from the ground and took solid shape. The shadoed in on itself, shimmering like when one folded hard dy. Soon it had arms and legs, a head, and then a pair of vender eyes that stared down at the back of her head. Bck hair fell down his face, “I dabble,” He said.
She sipped at her drink a out a breath, “Your employer won’t be happy to hear you’re dead,” She said coldly.
“She isn’t my employer anymore,” He said ftly.
Sonya looked out the window for a long moment, “Have you given it any thought? What I should call you now?”
He drifted around the armchair and dropped to a knee o her, l his head, “Please call me Bckrazor, mistress,” He said in a low voice.
Her lip twitched, “Edgy,” She said with a snort.
“Might as well embrace it,” He said with a hidden smile.
“That, I approve of,” She chuckled and nodded before her expression fell, “Your previous employer is a very dangerous man. His powers dwarf mine right now and he could even end Marta’s life with a touch,” She murmured.
He looked up at her, “The guy? Phan Duong?” He asked.
“Yes, don’t worry about him right now,” She anded and looked up at the sky, “Your immediate goal is the Night Society.”
“You said you wahem, but I don’t fully uand what you mean by that,” He said, looking up into her stoic fabsp;
She gnced down at him, “What is there to interpret? You will go and take trol of the Night Society.”
He bli her, “You-you’re serious?”
She looked him in the eyes, “Do I seem like the kind of person to joke about something like this?” She asked him coldly, “ you not do it?”
He sat up on his knees, meeting her eyes, his gaze wide with somethiween wonder and terror, he looked down at his hands as purple metal seeped from his palms and took the shape of wicked looking khey melted again auro his skin. “Yes, I do it, I’ll put ao the Leader and take his pce,” He said thoughtfully, “I won’t let you down, mistress.”
“I know you won’t,” She said, “I’ve ied a lot into you. Toxic Blood and Autarch of Shadow. You are a mythic-tier supervilin now, Bckrazor. Be sure to act like it going forward.”
“Yes, mistress.”
She sipped her drink and fixed her eyes on the gss again, “Esg the try will be a good way to get a handle on your abilities,” She said, “You may go.”
He bowed his head and dissolved into the ground, his shadows spreading across the room for a moment before slipping away. She looked at herself in her refle as he departed and brought her drink to her lips. It was empty. She looked down into it and then up at herself again, but it wasn’t her face she saw. She saw two digitized eye staring back at her, narrow bands of hot pink gring back with unfeeling malice.
She sniffed, Feeling guilty now? She asked herself, You don’t have time for that, you made a promise and yoing to keep it. She gripped the gss in her hand tightly a craing in it, This isn’t over until Otis is dead and the monsters are gone. No matter what you have to do, no matter what I have to do. I’ll walk over a million corpses if that’s what it takes. I’ll drag humanity kig and screaming into the future.
She let out a breath and looked away from her refle.
There ause,
–
The day Sonya sat on the private jet o Marta. Her dear friend was dozing, her head resting on Sonya’s shoulder. Sonya looked out the window aally flipped through a list in her HUD. Thousands of names appeared in front of her, each line a precious piece of information that she only possessed because of her position and influence. She doubted even Amos could get his hands on this kind of data without more than a little effort. The Pandora ittee was taking serious precautions with it.
The Lised Heristry, she mused.
Every single name erson who had registered, their tier, and their ability as described by them. There were plenty of names she reized, over a dozen mythics listed, Marta included as Handmaiden. Her lip twitched into a small smile, So many hands to shake, She chuckled and flipped through, Now… lets see how many of you bastards made it into the first batch… She thought as she began to filter through the data, looking for a few specifiames.
“Mmm?” Marta murmured o her.
Sonya closed out of her HUD and gowards her friend, “You up?” She whispered.
“How long was I out?” Marta asked, blinking rapidly as she looked around the pne, “Are we almost there?”
“About thirty minutes away,” Sonya said softly, reag to pat her head, “How are you feeling? You slept a lot.”
Marta made a face, “It hurt, a lot,” She said numbly.
“I know it did,” Sonya said and reached to squeeze her hand, “I made him hurt for it.”
Marta looked down at her feet, “I’d do it again.”
“I know,” Sonya said a out a sigh, “I ’t do this without you, Marta.”
Marta sat up and nodded, “I’m your shield, Sonya, this is the least I do,” She said and gave Sonya her stro look, her eyes sparkling with resolve.
Sonya gri her, “You’re so cute when you’re tough.”
Marta shivered and her face turned red, she hopped to her feet, “I thought I said no flirting! You know I don’t swing that way!” She barked.
“I’ve heard that before, ged their mind pretty quick,” Sonya teased.
Marta threw up her hands, “Way to ruin the moment you perv!” She griped, st over to one of the ets set up ihe jet and pulled out a bottle of wine. She was about to pop the cork and froze, “ I… get drunk?” She asked.
“Probably not,” Sonya said.
“ you?” Marta asked.
“I don’t think my brain will allow it anymore, no,” Sonya said soberly.
Marta snorted and leaned against the ter, “What are you going to do ohis is all over?” Marta asked, staring at the bottle.
“Probably pay for my crimes,” Sonya said with a sigh, “I’ll deserve it in the end.”
Marta closed her eyes and took a deep breath, “It’s just pain, it’ll pass.”
Sonya closed her eyes and nodded, “Yeah.”
–
Hyunh fidgeted in the car, tapping her foot. This is bad, she thought, looking up at the street ahead of them. I shouldn’t have left him alone, She chewed on her lip and gowards the driver who was sweatih his stylized cap. She frow him and leaned forward, “You better not be driving slow just because you’re a coward,” She snarled ahe vehicle immediately pick up speed. She checked her phone, more texts ing in, more warnings. Phan Duong was being more violent, he could explode into real viole any moment.
She had to get there fast, if he killed a bunch of people publicly, it would all be over. She groueeth, daring fate to put traffi front of her at this crucial time. A deep breath, a steadying exhale, and she looked down a the small pieethyst in her hands. It was barely the size of the average pill, but it would be enough. She let out a sigh, Razor is dead, it beggars belief, but the autopsy came up positive almost immediately for his civiliay. He’d been buro death, almost unreizable. I would have thought it fake if not for his dental records.
She gripped the gem in her palm, Damn it.
She felt a charge in the air that forced her to look up. The driver’s hairs were starting to stand on end. She whipped her head to the left and spotted Duong’s home. An apartment building that had beeed as a mansion for a single person. She pat the back of the driver’s seat, “This is fine,” She urged him and threw the door open as he came to a stop. She pulled her hair bad strode across the street, there were a few people standing outside looking up at the building in fusion and fear. “Move!” She anded.
The bystanders scattered when they saw her, or rather, when they saw her broach. The mark of the syndicate. She strode past the fountains that spluttered water, the pumps were probably going to fail soon. She approached the doors and reached for them only to pull back as a spark leaped from one of the handles. She rolled her eyes and reached into her purse, pulling out an insuted glove and sliding it on. She grabbed the handle and pulled it aside to the noisy pop-crack of a charge jumpiween the door and the frame. She waited for it to pass before slipping through, stepping into the hall.
The smell of burnt hair and flesh assailed her nostrils, she raised her hand to her nose and frowned, Idiot! She snarled inwardly and stormed down the hall, going from room to room looking for him. Not on the first floor. She asded to the sed, thehird, before finding a line of bodies in front of the game room. She closed her eyes and fought for patieepping out into the hallway. She felt something wash over her, toug her skin for a moment before retrag. She blinked, Did he just… check me?
She swallowed and marched to the door and looked inside. He was standing there at the foosball table, his eyes fixed on it, his hands moving so fast she could barely see them. He grunted now and then before disappearing and reappearing oher side, tinuing his game. When she crossed the threshold he stopped, his shoulders falling a little. He looked over his shoulder and stared at her with those dark eyes of his, “Hyunh.”
“Hello, love,” She said softly, walking inside.
“He’s dead,” Duong growled, “Your assassin died.”
“I heard,” Hyunh said, “I’m just as surprised as you are.”
“That’s it?” He snarled and grabbed the table, ripping it out of the floor where it had been bolted and flipping it across the room. It smmed into the far wall with a terrible crash before he whipped around and fixed her with a stare. “That’s all you have to say, after you assured me that she would be dead? Really?” She roared, “Do you have any idea how much time I wasted waiting for that idiot to do something about that woman? Do you?”
She raised her hands up in a loviure, “Duong, dear, you know nothing is a sure thing,” She said softly, ing closer to him. He seemed to be vibrating, the electric charge in his body literally making him tremble with how much pressure he’d built up. “I ’t hug you like that, Duong,” She said as she got within arms reach. “How I apologize to you if you’re like this?” She asked, “You want me, don’t you?” She murmured, trying to look as sad as possible.
He glowered at her and looked away, she watched his teeth ch. She narrowed her eyes a fra and drew in a bit closer, “Duong, dear, if he didn’t work out we just have to try something else. Those vilins from the Uates interfered with the killing, they’re in the way, just like she is,” She whispered, “What we o do is get her here, on your home turf, and deal with her that way, wouldn’t that be better anyway?” She cooed, “Yes?”
His shoulders shook but eventually they rexed even more, the charge in the air began to fade and the hairs on her neck rexed. She eased in a bit closer until she knew she could take his fa her hands. She ran her fihrough his hair and tilted her head, “You poor thing,” She murmured, “It really isn’t fair, isn’t it?” She cooed, “It’s okay, It’s okay, I’m here my love…” She said and pulled his head to her chest. The amethyst hiddeween her fingers at the ready.
He let out a sigh, “I just want her dead…” He grumbled.
“I know,” She purred and slid her hand down, her fingers right behind his ear, “I know… it’ll all be over soon.” She said as she pressed the amethyst against his skin. “There you go, no more difficult thoughts now, dear. Let your beloved Hyunh take care of everything…”
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