BlueCollarGirl
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- Dec 20, 2020
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“Still no sign of Marksman here on the lakefront,” crackled Mr. Amazing’s voice over the comm. “Callie, what about you?”
“Nope, nothing here in the park. Queen?”
Adrienne sighed and reported in. “Lab and I haven’t seen or heard anything here in the plaza.” Her husband, Jack, made a low wave at her from across the way, and she smiled. For this recon mission, they were both in street clothes, though she had her black-and-silver uniform on under her dress and coat. March in Chicago was always a toss-up on what the weather would be, and this year it was cold and blustery.
She didn’t pay much attention to Jasper, the last of their team, as he checked in from the train station. Marksman had been on a rampage in Dallas the last anyone had heard, but an alert from a source outside the Hero Federation popped up on their radar this morning, so the team scrambled a quick look-and-see mission.
Well, it wasn’t surprising. Tips from outside the NHF were unreliable at best, but Amazing took all information seriously, and Jack agreed that we couldn’t ignore it. He ran an analysis through LUPINE, the supercomputer he built, on the odds of a Marksman attack here, and apparently they were high enough to make him join us out in the field. He was the team tech guy, not a super, so he rarely came out on missions with her.
That was fine. It was nice to work together but not “together”. As Scream Queen, every day was Halloween for Adrienne. She got to dress up in a sexy-but-scary costume, wear a mock-plague doctor mask concealing her identify and use her supersonic vocal abilities to beat up bad guys. Then she got to come home to her brilliant and understanding husband who tended to any wounds she picked up, massaged her feet, fixed her costume, and cooked her dinner. What more could a girl ask for?
“Okay, I’m calling it.” Amazing sounded annoyed but also more than a little relieved. “Let’s head back and regroup.”
Jack blew her a kiss from across the plaza and walked back towards the L-station. Adrienne smiled at his retreating back before she headed towards the parking garage where she left her sporty coupe. The walk was a few blocks, and the wind tousled her long, auburn hair into knots that would take probably an hour to brush out.
A million mundane things ran through her mind on that walk, but she never sensed the danger that followed close behind. She never even sensed someone there, let alone an old foe. It wasn’t until it was too late, when she’d reached her car in the quiet garage, that she heard a familiar voice whisper, “An eye for an eye, Scream Queen,” that she realized too late that she’d let her guard down.
And there he was as she turned. Before she could exhale a scream at him, his strange dark eyes caught hers, and all the fight ran out of her. “An eye for an eye,” she repeated as blankness swept across everything.
“Nope, nothing here in the park. Queen?”
Adrienne sighed and reported in. “Lab and I haven’t seen or heard anything here in the plaza.” Her husband, Jack, made a low wave at her from across the way, and she smiled. For this recon mission, they were both in street clothes, though she had her black-and-silver uniform on under her dress and coat. March in Chicago was always a toss-up on what the weather would be, and this year it was cold and blustery.
She didn’t pay much attention to Jasper, the last of their team, as he checked in from the train station. Marksman had been on a rampage in Dallas the last anyone had heard, but an alert from a source outside the Hero Federation popped up on their radar this morning, so the team scrambled a quick look-and-see mission.
Well, it wasn’t surprising. Tips from outside the NHF were unreliable at best, but Amazing took all information seriously, and Jack agreed that we couldn’t ignore it. He ran an analysis through LUPINE, the supercomputer he built, on the odds of a Marksman attack here, and apparently they were high enough to make him join us out in the field. He was the team tech guy, not a super, so he rarely came out on missions with her.
That was fine. It was nice to work together but not “together”. As Scream Queen, every day was Halloween for Adrienne. She got to dress up in a sexy-but-scary costume, wear a mock-plague doctor mask concealing her identify and use her supersonic vocal abilities to beat up bad guys. Then she got to come home to her brilliant and understanding husband who tended to any wounds she picked up, massaged her feet, fixed her costume, and cooked her dinner. What more could a girl ask for?
“Okay, I’m calling it.” Amazing sounded annoyed but also more than a little relieved. “Let’s head back and regroup.”
Jack blew her a kiss from across the plaza and walked back towards the L-station. Adrienne smiled at his retreating back before she headed towards the parking garage where she left her sporty coupe. The walk was a few blocks, and the wind tousled her long, auburn hair into knots that would take probably an hour to brush out.
A million mundane things ran through her mind on that walk, but she never sensed the danger that followed close behind. She never even sensed someone there, let alone an old foe. It wasn’t until it was too late, when she’d reached her car in the quiet garage, that she heard a familiar voice whisper, “An eye for an eye, Scream Queen,” that she realized too late that she’d let her guard down.
And there he was as she turned. Before she could exhale a scream at him, his strange dark eyes caught hers, and all the fight ran out of her. “An eye for an eye,” she repeated as blankness swept across everything.
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