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  1. Avenger Assembled
    Singularity: 23 Wraith: 20, and give me a DC 20 Tou save for the bullet Sea Devil: 14 Witch: 10 Nightscale: 5 Captain: 1 @Electrais up! You are fast enough to get down here with a move action.
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    "I think I can arrange for something like that," said Richard, thumb in his waistband as he considered this situation. "I mean, just to check it out," he added, making a little circling gesture with the other hand. "For the show." He wasn't going to get sucked into whatever conspiracy theory the kids were pushing, even if they had been carefully vetted to make sure they weren't pushing any nonsense about secret Illuminati masters or lizard people or any of the usual malarkey. I'll look at the demon invasion thing, he thought with a nod. See if they're actually onto one thing, that'll make it more likely they're onto another thing. "Why do you think nobody's looked any closer, even after all the crises since?"
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    The elephant was - awake? Perhaps it was the wrong word but this was as clever as an animal, with thoughts similar to but not the same as an elephant. Overall it was perhaps a familiar series of thoughts for Pan, a creature that was less a real elephant and more the sort one would make if one had only ever heard stories about them. And if they had a sixty-foot wooden canvas rather than one of flesh. It seemed tame for now, looking around and snuffling with the aid of its great wooden trunk, before it took a few steps down the beach towards its home. Judy exited the shell first, crawling out and calling back behind her with a huge smile, "-almost there! Follow me to adventure!" She looked around, profoundly relieved, as she took in where they were, followed shortly thereafter by a small group of shell-shocked looking alien kindergarteners, staring around with eyes and feelers and various other things. Judy looked at the kids and winced, then whispered to her friends, "what are we gonna do?" Ashley was the last one out, looking disgruntled for a moment before settling back to all business. "Gotta make a quick call," she said before stepping aside for a moment.
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    "It was objectively an excellent outfit," said Eira smoothly. "Astrid just has better taste than most - teenagers," she added, never mind that she would still be one for two years. "Astrid!" she exclaimed cheerfully, giving her not-quite-friend-but-certainly-comrade a cheeky grin. "Are you telling tales about me? Good!" She laughed, then paid attention to Luke. "Yes, this sounds like a story! Did you make him cry?" Judy blinked a few times, making sure to give Elena some space when she sensed the other girl's unease. She wanted to say that she knew exactly what it was like to find yourself in a strange place surrounded by these young preternatural beings, but of course she couldn't know exactly what was happening in her head. When Danica mentioned music, Judy snapped her fingers and said, "That's it! Come on, Micah, Ah made sure there's a guitar over there and everything..." Actually holding the cowboy's hand, she led him over to where Danica's no-fooling iPod was before finding the guitar in question. Standing close to him, keeping the dance floor between them and everyone else, Judy put a warm hand on his arm before she said, "Since this may be our last chance to do this...Ah thought you could play, and Ah, uh, well, Ah could sing? Ah made sure the songs Ah want are on here if you don't know them..."
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    Richard looked at the screen, hand on his chin. "The business takes its toll pretty fast, especially here. Sometimes a new hero will come here for training and then go back home where it's easier. Like that Papercut kid, he's in Detroit, and Citizen's definitely in Vancouver." I guess replacing a robot with another robot would be easy enough, though..."And that's...no, that's his brother. I thought you had one of the people who died when the Terminus showed up again two years ago, but that's his twin." He tapped the screen, then said, "Everybody assumed that Stratos had fixed up a robot double and used it to hide out for a while. Nobody really gives a damn about what supervillains are up to if they're not actually attacking the city." He remembered his mother's thoughts on that very well. "So okay, you've got a lot of interesting questions, but these aren't answers. You sound like you have a theory about where they went."
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    Inside the girls locker room, Eira Katastroff studied herself in the mirror, what was by multiple objective metrics the best outfit she could have reasonably worn wrapped around her body. After some consideration, she reached up and wrapped her fingers through her metallic hair, pulling it up and out over her head in a series of cunningly-arranged spikes. Their blue color turned purple and pink under her touch, bringing a smile to her dark-painted lips. She reached down and snapped the hem of her skirt, the fabric immediately shifting to a bright red plaid instead of blue denim. She adjusted her T-shirt, spreading her hands over the fabric so it turned into an image of a leering skull-faced robot, then peeled off the top layer of her boots so they turned into shoes. Nodding, she stepped out of the room and stuck her arm back in Pan's, clinging to him with a smirk. "Much better." She ran a hand affectionately through his messy hair. "Hello, everyone. We heard there was a party. I heard about you," she said excitedly to Elena, "How do you like Earth-Prime?" Nearby, Judy smiled shyly at Micah. "Well howdy there, cowboy. You look like you're ready to rope a steer." She reached up and adjusted his tie without thinking about it, though really he looked perfectly fine. "It's real nice, Micah," she told him from close range. "You did great. And Ah figured Ah don't have a lot of these parties left...so Ah might as well look mah best." She stepped back just a little and said, "Look at everything Danica did! This place is amazing!" She reached down and put her hand by his while they talked. "This is Elena, she just came here from far away." She beamed at the boy with the sparkly shirt, adding, "Hello! Ah'm Judy Cahill. Don't you look amazing?"
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    Eira Katastroff walked in just behind Pan, looking dressed to kill in a denim skirt with some torn black leggings, a black band shirt with the logo 'Entombed' proudly printed on it, and some chained rocker boots. She'd told Pan that she liked Danica but she wasn't going to dress like a kid for a kid's party, she was going to dress like the woman she was and go on a real date with her badass boyfriend. Then she walked in, looked at Astrid across the room, and muttered "jävlarskit" just loud enough for Pan to hear before she took a few quick steps and stepped into the nearby girls bathroom. As the doors swung shut behind her, she said another few bad words.
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    "That's Archetech, isn't it?" said Watchdog suddenly, her voice more compassionate than it had been just a moment or two earlier. "I recognize the tech." Strong enough that it gave him his functionality back, probably not enough to give him actual superpowers out of it. Poor bastard. The hell of it was, the kid was lucky to get it. Even in Freedom City, the average person in his situation would probably still be in a hospital bed. "You're just as God made you," said Daystar, putting her hand on the boy's cheek before impulsively hugging him to the almost fiery warmth of her chest. "Even if you don't look the way you did when you were born, you're still the person you were." and her voice pulled painfully tight at the last word, "you're still the person you were." She released him and looked at him to say "Whatever happened to your body can never touch your soul."
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    Richard almost asked "Who?" but caught himself at the last minute - obviously if they had proof about something like that, they'd have offered it earlier in the conversation. Instead he said, "Well...let's think about this." He got up and peered at the laptop, not wanting to admit that he couldn't actually distinguish faces from where he'd been sitting. "We have a pretty good idea of why people were taken, right? So their robot doubles could all rise up at the same time and cause a ruckus while the Curator was pulling off his heist at the North Pole." He looked at the screen and picked one of the small pictures at random and said "If...oh, Blue Fox got replaced, why didn't she start with the robot wackiness back on the Day?"
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    "Mm." Riley didn't ask Fred how long it had been or what had happened. If he was going to talk about that sort of thing with her, it certainly wasn't going to be at a party, especially not Raina's party. "Think you're stalling," he said good-naturedly. "Get yourself a mojito, be a real party girl." He grinned. "Or stick with kid stuff, if you want." He sipped his root beer and asked, "Anyone else coming?"
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    "This is...an alien world," said Eira, her voice sharp, her metallic hair askew, full of the sand that coated her skin and left side of her body. "There is a limited electromagnetic spectrum group of emissions on radio frequencies I do not recognize. Beyond that, this is a - a nothing world. It is just trees, and water, and people." She raised bright blue eyes to the pitiless golden star overhead and said sharply, "We will get home."
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    "How do you know that?" asked Richard carefully. "I mean, just because they never said they did doesn't mean they didn't..." His voice trailed off as he looked thoughtful, thinking about his earlier conversation with Miss Americana and how she'd never actually put her cyborg hubby back under the microscope. Had Dragonfly - or Midnight - looked any more precisely? Neither of them were what you'd call big talkers, and they hadn't wanted to get interviewed either. "But still, you'd think that'd be the first thing you'd say when you came back," he added, mostly to himself but still out loud. "Hm. Okay, so, nobody says for sure that they're clear after the robots are checked out. Take me further."
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    "Hi there!" said Judy, giving Elena an ebullient smile. "Oh, you fought Omegadrones?" Her eyes widened, though she seemed to be more interested than afraid. Her accent was thick, from a region called the American South, or so Elena had heard. "That's amazing!" She winked at Danica and added, "Ah sure hope so, Ah don't even know for sure he's coming...but Ah wanted to make sure Ah looked mah best when he did." For Elena's benefit, she added, "Micah is a very nice senior boy Ah'm friends with, he's got very nice hair and amazing eyes, and..." She blushed faintly before adding, "Well Ah just want to look nice for him, is all." Turning back to Elena, she said, "I want you to know, this is a party for everybody. Straight, gay, or even if you're just here to have fun, we are all going to have a good time." She looked like she took that idea very seriously, and indeed she did as she turned back to Danica, "So when do we find out what this famous surprise is?"
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    Will kept blushing as the evening progressed and Richard decided he did need to have a talk with the boy, an actual talk and not bedeviling hm about grandkids, about this girl some time in the near future. Kids are so lucky. Holly behaved herself through the rest of the evening, teasing her brother and notably being especially sweet with Bryant, even tucking him into bed and reading him Gertrude Crampton's Tootle for the third time that week. (The third time he'd heard it, anyway.) She was genuinely contrite about calling her little brother "a grandpa", though eager to point out during her conversation with Paige after his bedtime she had to put up with him a _lot_ when Richard and Paige were out these days. When the evening was done, Anna dozed off in her chair in front of the television, and then let Richard encourage her to move upstairs to the guest room when she was good and ready. Supercrime! might be coming to an end; but the Cline family show was just beginning
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    Richard thought back to his conversation with Miss Americana and the way she'd mentioned never taking too close a look at her cyborg husband. No no, that's...that's crazy. "Hmm," he said, holding his sunglasses in his hand thoughtfully. "That's a good question, but how do you find answers?" he asked. He remembered Paige telling him something once about doubting something being different from knowing something. "You can't just walk up to someone and stick a magnet to their heads to see if they're a robot."
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    "Hah-hah, well, evil space robots usually are the sort of thing you want to stop," agreed Richard. He considered a moment, shifted nervously in his seat, then said "We spoke with the hero Citizen over in Vancouver about the events of the Day of Wrath and he told us you and the rest of Young Freedom were better choices than he was if we wanted interviews. Do you have any idea why that might be?"
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    "Beautiful," said Richard honestly, meaning it and hoping he'd reassure her it was a good shoot in the same bargain. He pointed at the camera and said, "That's right, space creeps! Earth is ready for you!" He grinned, then looked back at Miss A and said, "Is there anything I've missed - anything you want to make sure we get before we stop rolling?" It was a standard question, but with someone as smart and charismatic as Miss Americana, who knew what she might offer up?
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    "That does make sense," agreed Richard. The hell of it was, he sure couldn't laugh them off the way a mundane TV host could have. Superheroes don't always tell the truth and superheroes don't always do what's best for everyone, not if it would make them look like asses. He knew that from personal experience. "And yeah, you gotta watch out with those teen heroes." He grinned at a memory of his son and daughter before adding, "they're all right, though. So, that's your big bite at the apple..." Which I am definitely going to have to look into when I get out of here, "tell me about this new one." The cameras were rolling now, but he was going to let them cue up their presentation on their own time. "What got you looking into this thing with the Curator?"
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    Richard blinked a few times, taking in that story. He and Paige had been far away from Freedom City in Halloween 2009, as he recalled one of their first real vacations with Will and Holly once the pressure of making the first few seasons of the show had worn off. "Well...that sort of thing has happened," he said, extemporizing quickly. "Sometimes when something is reversed or undone, the thing is so serious that undoing it affects the mind too. You probably remember that time Freedom City got turned into King Arthur's court for a little while." He sure as hell remembered that, especially his narrow escape from a version of Paige who had just been trying to bring her medieval times husband back. "But why would the Freedom League keep something like that a secret? We've had close calls before."
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    "Hum, okay," said Richard, looking confused for just a moment before he quickly moved on. Maybe I've been spoiled by being married to a psychic, he thought, not everybody can go digging around in their lover's body and mind as easily as Paige can. He smiled and asked a few more questions about Miss Americana and Harrier's relationship, the better to make sure the two lovebirds had some nice footage to put into the show and maybe to set Miss Americana at ease, before he said, "I guess we're close to wrapping up, but I do have one big question. On a scale of one to, ah, the Terminus - how concerned are you about another incident with the Curator?"
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    "Oh doesn't this look darling?" If there was anything Judith Claudia Cahill loved besides Jesus, her family, and maybe America, it was party planning. She hadn't quite horned in on Danica's party but she had certainly volunteered to help, throwing herself in with all the energy of a young woman who never slept and loved helping people. She'd cut the paper ribbons hanging herself, and dressed in a sparkly red dress that brushed against the ground and made her look like a bit like a prom queen. Ashley was hanging around the party somewhere but was giving all the space to her charge. "Danica, you were amazing," she told her friend warmly. "We couldn't have done this without you." She gave Danica a quick hug, then went back to work making sure there were carefully cut-out red hearts and candy treats on every table.
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    "There's no love like super-love," said Richard with a grin. "I'm sure the two of you must be happy together. And hey, what a story!" The first time he and Paige had been kidnapped together, the Atoms had tried really hard to make them break, but he figured that story probably wasn't appropriate for the moment. I guess all that time with one of the world's greatest technopaths counted as his post-kidnapping examination? After all that time with the doppleganger, I bet you couldn't have been too careful."
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    Richard didn't remember there being a shadow war with Omega in 2006, but he and Paige hadn't exactly been close to hero central back in those days and they weren't really on anybody's confidential list until they'd moved back into town. "You guys must have good eyes," he said, "I don't think I'd ever have caught that." He had no idea what Vine was but he was familiar with the show's Youtube channel. Jeez is it really that old? No wonder the suits thought we were behind the times. "Yeah, some people just have short attention spans," he said breezily. "So what was your biggest find before all...this?"
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    "Cathy," said Riley, eyebrow raising for just a moment as he smiled. "Good to see you." He let Raina actually make the greeting, figuring that it wasn't his party. Looking around, he started to wonder if he should have sat on the edge; sitting in the interior of the booth in a party like this was rapidly hemming him in. He shifted for a moment, then took the opportunity of Cathy's arrival to work his way out of his seat, making a few apologies as he displaced the rest of the group, and gave her a hug. "Still cold," he said as he leaned against the wall by the booth, root beer in hand.
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    "Depends," said Riley evenly. "You're feeling festive, I've got this..." He slipped a small flask out of his sleeve and set it on the table. "But that's pretty strong. Don't want you going t'sleep in the middle of the party." He grinned. "Maybe just a white wine spritzer, that seems like rich girl type." He spread his arms, showing how he meant it. "If you think you can handle the hard stuff we serve in the future, that is."
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