I planned to blow it up when no one was near it. Back when I didn’t know how much of a hold they had on him, I planted bombs I confiscated from the Nine in his car. And what was your plan for Spitz? Surely it wasn’t for Morgan to shoot him.”Ĭolin sighed, “We never even got to my plan. That was your original plan for Spitz, right?” Because if they do, it’s not just you who suffers, it’s all of us. Vladislav shook his head, “They take precautions. You didn’t mess with their heads, did you?” We weren’t lying, but trying to frame Morgan shooting Spitz before he did anything as a heroic act? I didn’t think we were going to get away with that. Letting out a breath, Colin said, “It looks like they bought all of it. Hours later, they stood together in Vladislav’s office. In the background, Colin began to spray Morgan and Ape Nasty’s wounds with something in a canister from his belt, “We’ll have to get a doctor to look at you, but this will work for now.” Lindsay tapped a spot on her belt and the costumed turned into gooey strings that the belt absorbed, “It’s not as good as my normal costume, but it’s good enough.” Ah, he realized, an emergency backup costume then. Morgan’s light armor and skin on her gun hand had also been burned.Īt first glance, Vladislav thought Lindsay had pulled her entire silver costume out of nowhere, but then he noted that she didn’t have her backpack or gas gun. Ape Nasty’s fur and the skin under it were burnt. Morgan, Lindsay, and Ape Nasty came out from behind the flipped table- more charcoal than a table. Within a minute after that, only bones were left.Įveryone in the group had survived. His blasts of white light became gradually weaker until his body went limp. Spitz tried to burn the rats, turning hundreds into ash, but for every rat killed another would take its place. The sound of thousands of claws skittering across the floor combined with the thumps of rats that had appeared near the ceiling, and Spitz’ screams as the rats covered him and tore into his skin. Spitz tried to pull away from the dagger, screaming as the web of black veins stayed within, pulling his skin.Īt the same time, rats exploded out of the corners of the room, big and small, all of them with teeth bared. Vladislav said three words, the ending line of a summoning spell. With Spitz distracted, Colin rolled away, showing he was still alive, but he began to stand, looking up at Spitz as if he intended to charge the man again. It would kill the man, but it would take more time than Vladislav had. A spiderweb of black veins extended under Spitz’ skin, pulsing as they pulled blood from his body. Whether Spitz' growth had changed his internal organs or Ape Nasty’s chair knocked the blow off, Spitz didn’t go down in a combination of pain and internal bleeding. He powered through the pain, aiming for the kidney again, the blade sinking into Spitz’ back even as a chair thrown by Ape Nasty hit Spitz in the front. Much more and his arm would burn into immobility. Colin dropped to the ground as the heat broke through Vladislav’s armor. Running toward Spitz with the dagger in hand, he reached around, stabbing at the man’s back again.Īs he did, Spitz pulsed with another blast of white heat. Colin might still be up, but his protection wouldn’t last forever. The glow around Spitz’ arm expanded as it fired a wide beam of heat in Vladislav’s direction, missing only because Colin hit Spitz from the side as if he was playing football.Ĭolin was in full costume, but Vladislav saw the upper layer blacken. ![]() Then Spitz turned his head to look backward at Vladislav, aiming his arm in his direction, gibbering as if he’d forgotten how to talk. Spitz moved forward as the heat from him burned Vladislav’s glove. Made of dark metal and stained with the blood of a dead god, summoning it would touch sensitive people across the world, but most would know better than to investigate. As the last syllable finished, a dagger appeared in his hand. Ignoring all of that, he said the true name of an entity he’d researched hundreds of years before. ![]() Even though he could still feel the heat and thought he might smell something beginning to burn, it wasn’t his skin. It only took a word to cover every part of his skin. Though he wasn’t in full armor, his vulnerability to sunlight meant that he always wore something. The heat hit his body along with the accompanying pain. ![]() He wasn’t sure how well he’d do against Spitz’ heat after he turned back into a human, but as long as Spitz wasn’t radiating sunlight, he’d be fine.Ĭrossing the distance, he reformed off to Spitz’ right and a foot behind him. He could already hear the crackle of burning wood. How much protection it would give, he had no idea. From under him, he heard the sound of something large and heavy hitting the floor, probably the table.
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