Capítulo 2484: Omake : A Master of Arms' shitty mounth
A Master of Arms' Take:
Colin Wallis had a very shitty day with a criminal who he was supposed to transfer to the Birdcage being killed under his watch and another being killed while trying to free the former and on the top of that the Backup Buddies contesting his authority and revealing that they KNEW the PRT was looking into Oblivium and trying to recruit him.
Hrn in fact now that he thought about it this Shitty day was the culmination of a shitty month and that Began with Oblivium when Shadow Stalker snuck in his room and that action revealing some unsavoury acts of hers, which is ironical in retrospect since Agent Hutchison was convinced Oblivium and Shadow Stalker were now dating and Hannah told him that it was also a rumour amongst the Wards and that Vista was imputing Sophia being more liveable to her relationship with the boy and Assault even joked that he put a ring on it Grn Bloody Ring…
At first it seemed William Taylor was merely some kind of blaster, however when he read Hannah and Aegis' report Colin changed his mind and decided to go through what was found in the Taylor home, especially in the Boy's room. What he found was lots tools and various electronics and toaster in the process of being dismantled, this reminded him of a report of Hutchison's when he went to interview the Taylors before they were certain that Oblivium and William Taylor were one and the same, his mother had told him her son said Oblivium was "just a bloody Toaster" it seemed nonsensical at that point but when Collin saw the boy's room he thought otherwise: what if whatever it was he used against his kidnappers at that point had been made out of Toasters after all his very first gear had parts of Refrigirators, Cars and even Toasters too he remembers how his gran had reacted after finding her toaster was missing…Good thing he had had armour on at that point.
After that Oblivium came to the PRT building to fetch Shadow Stalker in order to spar with her, Colin took the opportunity and went to talk the boy in order to convince him to have their session in one of the PRT's rooms so he could get a good read on the boy's tech and see what he could do and also to scan him with his own suit of sensors, which revealed nothing aside from weird energy readings.
When the boy refused he tried to have him wait with the Wards to have him socialise with them in order to perhaps make him want to join, but Oblivium flat out refused and stated he preferred to wait outside…Which in Hindsight was the first Clue that the boy was smarter than his standard behaviour let on.
Then there was what happened after the spar, according to Vista's report Oblivium…Obliterated one of the wrecks of the boat graveyard and managed to talk his way out of fighting Stormtiger of all people which was the second clue that the boy was smarter than he let others know, and not only that but according to Vista Oblivium was not tense or stressed one bit while doing that and she said when he interviewed her that it wasn't because he was overconfident or ignorant which Colin believed as Vista was the ENE protectorate most experienced Ward despite her age.
But at that point Colin was happy with the news as the Boy had requested a trial run with the Wards to Hannah which meant he would get to work with the Boy as well as the ENE Protectorate branch getting needed reinforcement but if he had known what now knew Armsmaster would have been wary because it was certainly part of the Boy's plan to have the PRT cut him some slack and watch him less.
Because after this Oblivium took Lung down along with two unkown parahumans and video of it got onto the Internet, and what was shown was a flawless takedown with not loss or injury for Oblivium or his team well aside from them leaving one of their own behind. The worst part was that they took Lung down after having dealt with a Merchant den.
Of course Colin made a show of interrogating the new cape, codenamed Impact, and took him in custody when his lie Detector pinged on the fact he was not really on the team with Oblivium and thus was most likely a merchant cape, but then Oblivium arrived and came to take him out of custody and in the process walked into the base as if he had known it his whole life, which still baffles the ENE protectorate as he still hasn't found HOW he could know the base that well, and took Impact with him completely disrespecting the PRT, Protectorate and every regulation still Armsmaster managed to get that Impact was on Oblivium's team after all…Colin reasoned that Impact's previous statement of being on Oblivium's team resulted in the Biker cape's anger at being left behind and thus no longer really considering himself part of the group.
It was a bit after that that once again Oblivium proved he was very smart: he used the PRT's need for PR to get what he wanted by negociating his and his team's attendance to the press conference about Lung's takedown, or more to the point brought in a teammate whom he designated the team's leader to do it in his stead while he was reflecting on designs for something which despite his multiple scans Colin could not understand. This proved how smart the boy was: he knew his limits and brought in someone else to compensate for them, but not just that: the request to have Shadow Stalker on his team was genius as she Synergised extremely well with the other power sets they already had: recon, Tank, Tech Support/heavy Fire power, Infiltrator/Stealth Specialist…
Speaking of the conference, Oblivium took it as an opportunity to show he was better than the PRT by ditching it and going to stop and attempted Bank Robbery that they were not even aware of, using one of their own Wards in the process and using her extremely effectively to protect the bystanders, it also showed that Arachne was their field leader and was good at it. Proving the point that William Taylor was good at choosing his people for different missions and knew his limits.
Then in a stroke of Genius Oblivium removed the vulnerability that could potentially come with a secret ID by having his revealed, oh not by doing an unmasking like New wave had done but arranging an event that would lead people to find out by themselves and then when found out of course his family got attacked Bakuda…Who got killed the very same day which sent a big message to anyone wanting to go after him or his family, but not just that but there were no real proof to land Bakuda's death on Oblivium or the Taylors' doorstep.
He also managed to cripple Coil and uncover the man's ties with the Travelers by having himself kidnapped in order to find and destroy the man's base, and once again despite the fatalities and the damages there is no clear way to go after Oblivium as he technically was a kidnapping victim.
And the cherry of the cake was when Hutchison tried to use his authority on him Oblivum acted completely distracted and uninterested with no worry about the sanctions Hutchison was telling him about showing that he did not care about working with the PRT at all or being labelled a villain, he then proceeded to go through their security system to prove his point, meaning that they could NOT hold him even if they wanted to. In hindsight it was clear Oblivium acted distracted because he was as he was attacking their security system.
Sometime Later Shadow Stalker came back to base with a ring apparently made by Oblivium, this was a great opportunity for Armsmaster to analyse the younger Tinker's tech, but Shadow Stalker refused giving the ring giving Colin nonsensical arguments about it exploding if it was not in contact with her and his Lie Detector showed she believed it, but Colin reasoned that even if it did explode it would most likely not be something that would be enough to hurt a person, especially in armor and that Oblivium would certainly not outfit his teamates with something that could be dangerous for them and that if the explosion was minor he could still get intel from the scraps and there were not traces of known explosives in the thing at all…It did not go as planned and the explosion was violent injuring both him and his Ward, they had to be taken to Panacea ASAP and Piggot was mad at him afterwards and ordered him to stay away from the boy's tech. In retrospect Colin theorized that the ring was attuned to Shadow Stalker's neural impulses and used them to create a loop to stabilise it's energy source as well as a control mechanism.
A bit after that was an incident in a Warehouse where Oblivium apparently slaughtered a bunch of evil clones in rather gruesome ways (enough to have one of the witnesses trigger) and then somehow melted the corpses. Colin took the opportunity to get Oblivum to help their new ward who was a bit lackluster in capability and of course the Bloody boy asked for something in return: containement foam.
There was also the issue that Sophia Hess went to see him early in that morning and that there are pics on PHO of them flying and holding hands.
Armsmaster had watched Oblivium time with Mist and was bemused by how easily the Tinker managed to understand the new Ward's power and instruct him how to use it efficiently…That was the moment Colin thought he had pinpointed the Boy's speciality: Powers and their reproduction in technological form, he had to talk to him and see if the Boy could do for him what he did for Mist.
But once again the Young Taylor proved himself difficult and saw right through him and blew him off, which was extremely vexing especially with Hannah coming to drop reproaches on him for his behaviour.
And back again to that Bloody escort mission…Reviewing the reports and records of the other teams Colin grew even more sumber as he saw that not ony were the Backup Buddies more efficient and useful than the PRT troopers or his own capes but also because he saw that Shadow Stalker seemed to have better control over her power and able to do things she could not before implying Oblivium helped her the same way he did Mist but also because "Oblivigirl" was shown to get out of Containement foam more than once, which explains why Oblivium wanted the stuff: to devise a countermeasure against it in case it was used against him.
In short he was preparing himself for a possible confrontation with the PRT and the Protectorate and with what he got from Gallant and Aegis' reports about a possible Master tech derived from Glory Girl's power and the Anti Master shield Oblivium prepared himself against anything that might be used against him…A bit like Colin himself that was very worrying. The worst was that records also showed that he was capable of predicting Oni lee's teleports and first results show the Man was blown up from the inside…They had to get that boy under control quickly, not only so that he doesn't becomes a threat but also because they would profit from his tech…the anti Master shields alone would be a tremendous asset. And now they had a means to get control of him: Oni Lee's death put together with the other charges(even though they had no real proof)should be enough for the hard sell. Just as he was finishing that thought Colin received a warning that the Bugs on Shadow Stalker's equipment ceased anything. Tch shitty day, shitty month to the end.
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