"Dammit I think we broke it!" SnipersWrath put his weapon
down.
"It doesn't
look good!" I slightly understated. "Can we confirm it
wasn't ALL my fault?"
"Of all the
things we can, will, should or might blame you for ... no this time
you can't be held totally responsible."
I breathed a sigh of
relief.
"I'm off to see
Evo. Plans need to be made."
"Phantom ...
don't know if you noticed ... the city's gone"
"But that
rubble there looks like it might have been my apartment block."
"And you think
Evo will be somewhere in that?"
He had a point,
there didn't really look like there was anyone left anywhere in the
city.
"Can't you just
picture her and blink to where she is?"
"If it was that
easy do you think it would have taken me three months to find her
dad?"
"Well she's a
merc, she'll be where the action is."
And that is?
"I heard that
shit was going down in New Amsterdam."
"Good place to
start! Beers later? On me"
"Sure ...
where?"
"I'll just
picture you and blink"
"Sounds good"
And people said I
was the idiot in the team.
New Amsterdam was
kinda like I imagined it, but with less canals, tulips, clogs and a
lot less New.
But within half an
hour I'd witnessed enough to know it had the kind of action that
would attract Evo.
Some guy calling
himself 'The Raptor' tried mugging me, but that ended badly for him.
The paramedics were still discussing how to extricate his foot when I
walked away.
Something covered in
flames jumped off a rooftop in an alley, and I quickly demonstrated
unlike the popular saying that I will piss on you if you're on fire.
I bumped into one of
the Valkyries, but after our last encounter she just blanked me.
Some wierdo tried to
lift my wallet.
"I'm sorry!"
He whined. "I can't help myself, I just have to act on my
impulses." I just had to act on mine and blinked him to the
steps outside the 5th Precinct with an explanatory note stapled to
his forehead.
And let's not talk
about that Stygian, well let's briefly ... cos that's how long his
attack lasted.
What's this place?
"Blue Oyster
... cold beers, hot stuff" the sign above the door stated.
Hmmmm. Beer!
Ok so not my usual
choice of bar, I mean I'm comfortable in myself - but the big guy on
the stage with kneepads and not a lot else on was looking at me a
little too intently. I decided to keep head down, drink my beer,
examine my boots ... I don't know why Evo kept saying had small feet,
they looked absolutely in proportion.
"I know you!"
"Huh?!?" I
looked up. The guy wore a lot of red, and was definitely familiar.
"Rakly?!?!"
"Phantom. You
still heroing?"
"I guess, I was
just looking for ..."
"Still able to
manipulate that dimensional energy?" He interrupted.
"The blue stuff
... yeah!"
"Then you might
just be the guy I've been looking for."
Prioritise, I told
myself, you're here to find Evo, don't get involved in any
distractions.
"Why?"
Questions couldn't hurt.
"Well we're
struggling to send a quantum wave of quark emissions through a
temporal portal and have it exist simultaneously in two time lines."
"Yeah that can
be a problem ... with the quantum leap and stuff."
Keep cool, act
normal, give nothing away.
"I could use
your special skills."
No time for
distractions, Evo finding number one priority.
"If you could
just come over to the Tower for a bit."
Oh boy, it was never
a bit when people asked favours of me.
"We have a
bar."
A few hours wouldn't
hurt.
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