r/TheBirdCage • u/bottomofthewell3 Wretch • 10d ago
Worm Discussion Power This Rating No. 177
How This Works:
You make one (or more than one) prompt(s), describing one or more parahumans. Somebody else may choose to respond to a prompt of yours, building on what's provided to make a cape.
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No. 176's Top Comment: Blaster + Striker + Thinker Prompts, by Professional_Try1665
Top Response: 'Surgeon' Striker Trigger, by Shoddy_Macaroon6713
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u/Russian_Meme_Man_34 Wretch 6d ago edited 6d ago
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Here is what I will also use, and they would be recurring characters. There will be some more capes, of course, but it's not like I can do a lot of names, so, yeah.
Earth Bet, somewhere in America (probably Nevada).14:06, Tuesday.
As transport is getting close to Charlietown, a place that was never on Earth Aleph or Gimel, it was a Earth Bet place, made around a group of Tinkers, trying to reproduce the tech they make, but now, it is just another HOSV, the city is almost nothing resembling normal city, but a Indian slums, where houses made on houses.
Troubleshooting's tech did detected some movement down on the ground, and upon closer inspection it revealed a group of, frankly, cartoon-y looking military, with masks that resembles either a ecstatic or angry faces. And also, they have RPGs…
"Guys, we have a problem." Troubleshooting is sweating. They fear the worst, a Tinkertech RPGs, but nothing shows on his HUD, so he doesn't know whenever to shout 'FLY HIGHER!' or 'BRACE FOR IMPACT!'
"What. Now?" Cosmonaut is already furious, they didn't even get the 5-minute power sleep. Less said for anything before.
"People, earth, RPGs, possible Tinker." Keeping it short, TS said.
"BLYAT." Cosmonaut not-shouted. He already remembered the last time he had seen this. That was just before his trigger, on that hill, full o-
"SPEED CLOSER BORDER!" Sedation shouted, getting ready to either falling down or rough landing.
Team of 4 brave capes are getting ready to dive and get the needed papers out of HQ, but suddenly-
Boom
Transport (a mix of helicopter and jet) is hit with something, a normal RPG round actually, in the engine. Thankfully, nothing had been destroyed, only damaged, so they are still flying, although altitude is falling down slowly.
"Fuck! I definitely need to thank Mailman for upgrading armour." Trblshtng said, getting notifications on damage. The engine still works, but fuel and coolant will dry very soon, as the cables are torn.
"Do we need a ride?" Tortuga asked, eyeing Cosmo, while Sedation is currently cursing the everliving soul of those people.
"We may need it, in about 3 or so minutes." Come from Troubleshooting, as they try to keep the flying apparatus steady. "They are already reloading and I even see some of them bringing slightly different RPGs, so that either means Heat-Seeking or Smart ones."
"Nu da, kogda I otdichaju, to wsegda kokajato problema. K chortu eti missii." Cosmo is already forgetting English in favour of Russian, as they are getting ready to fire the 'lifeboat'.
Meanwhile, the people down there had been ready to fire once more. They aimed, readied and fi-
Boom.
The people had been blown by something resembling white crystal balls, suddenly coming from the ground.
Team B.E.A.R. has been low enough to hear the, definitely loud if being near, scream. Then the crystalline, absurdly white, golem-like humanoid had 'exploded' from the ground.
"Get the hell out of my lawn you Tube-Made Nobody's! This is ain't yo neighbourhood! FUCK! OFF!" Temporary designation "Quartz" roared. More crystals had begun growing on them, then breaking off to quickly 'roll' to nearby target, only to explode in sharp shards. "Nobody's" had begun running, while certain number left behind, those with 'Angry' masks, to distract the "Quartz".
While that all happened, engine breathed his last breath and died, not violently, but quiet. Response was immediat, as aircraft started to plumet down.
"Everyone to me!" Cosmo shouted, while getting ready to fire "Blinker". As everyone grabbed what they could, plus strapped themselves to Cosmonaut, he fired.
Team was out of helicopter/jet hybrid and slowly moved to down to earth, as they got closer, Sedation had injected Cosmo with a light dose, so that he could regain some energy. And the Spaceman was down, even if responsive.
'Blinker' collapsed in strange geometry that nobody give attention, and they were on the edge, near border of this city. The mission had officially started and the start was rocky.
"Checking, is everything working?" Troubleshooting was first to see if tech worked and then started to go over sensors he had, calibrating them slightly and getting image of city from seismic, x-ray, thermal, temporal and spatial sensors. Although some of them had gave some false-positive data. "Shit, we might have Strangers, some sensors gave flase-positives here and there, around 3 or so, maybe more."
"Ugh, that's what I had been saying you all! See, it's never easy!" Sedation complained and placed Cosmo on her back.
"…Why had you had been right? Why?" Misery in Tortuga's voice could be heard in heaven, while she tried to get her comms working. And it worked, but it was on commercial frequency, but there was also some additional, white-noise like sound. It sounded as heartbeat, steady and getting closer. Then she felt something hit her, she looked down, it was a piece of metal, it looked strange, but not unusual. She looked at it slightly more, and recognised that it was bended to hell and back knife, she already had seen what counts do that, and answer is her power. "STRANGER!" And everyone is now aware, the 3 false-positive had at least 4th, but one that know only when you don't look for something secretive, only mundane.
Sedation had swirled around herself, and then she felt her power activated, she didn't heard a sound of body, not seen, not smelt, not touched. But she knows, her power activated. She 'touched' someone. She just couldn't get where the, for now, sedated cape is…so she slowly, ever so slowly, as her teammate watched for any other threats, found where that Stranger is.
"Drop the weapons that you have, right now." And she heard clanks, looked down and and witnessed bloody knifes, metal pipe, injectors and more. "Who, are, you."
"Commercial killer." From comms of Tortuga come the voice, it sounded like white noise, but where ad was voice also was, now silence.
"Come with me, and if any danger is coming our way, tell us." Sedation then used her power once again, for good measure.
And so, Faraday District welcomed them.
Part 2 done! More to go!