Bab 2: Chapter 2
Brockton Bay is situated in the northeastern region of the United States, to the north of Boston. Bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the east and surrounded by mountains or hills on the other side, particularly to the west, the state within which it is located remains unspecified.
Brockton Bay was likely among the top 10 U.S. cities in terms of its total cape population, indicating a substantial presence of individuals with superhuman abilities.
The city's foundation rests upon an underground lake or aquifer, and its coastal setting, combined with the surrounding geography, results in a relatively mild climate. The summers are comfortably warm, and the winters are known for being some of the mildest in the northeastern states. This climatic characteristic might contribute to the attraction of individuals in costume to the area.
Throughout the city, there are scattered blocks of storage containers, remnants of a brief period when they were used as inexpensive, off-the-books housing before such practices were prohibited.
So all in all a good place to hide out. Which is what Azazel had been doing for the past few months.
[Azazel POV]
I loved having powers, I mean who wouldn't? But I'm not a hero kinda person. I robbed everything from pawn shops to convenience stores, basically everything except a bank. Mostly to hone my powers and see what limits I possess. I had my first cape fight back in Boston. Against a group called the teeth, just three of their members, which was a piss-take. How was I supposed to know that was their territory I was "Shopping In" they gave me two options join them or die. Obviously, I picked option three...fight back. That was the day I discovered I had that dog in me, and that I could do more than just teleport and my body is just awesome.
I was facing off against Hemorrhagia, Animos, and Spree. The Teeth all wore costumes that had blades, spikes, and spines all over them, as well as the teeth, bones, and other body parts of their defeated foes. Hemorrhagia has the ability of limited blood control and some personal biokinesis, which allowed her to create hard physical cutting weapons out of her blood, and shields out of her scabs...which is cool but gross. Like what if she has an STD...who does she think she cutting with them AID Blades?
Animos has the ability to change into a quadrupedal creature for a limited time, comparable in size to a mini Cooper....a fucking mini cooper While in this form, Animos has a power-nullifying ranged attack...which I avoided every time during the fight on instinct...I'm telling you my dog was dogging that day.
Spree has a master ability that allows him to produce a large amount of duplicates of himself in a very short amount of time; roughly 15 clones every three seconds. Because of this, he tends to serve as the Teeth's front-line combatant. The clones rapidly degrade after their creation, ending up brain-dead after a few seconds and reduced to pulp within 15 minutes...so essentially he's a spammer.
Now as for how awesome I truly am. well I can teleport, I possess super strength, speed, agility, durability, reflexes, and equilibrium. I discovered the strength part when I ripped a stop sign out of the ground and beat Animos into the pavement with it. Speed I discovered when he recovered and tried to run away and I chased him down on foot(in my defense I forgot I could just teleport to him) and put him through a wall or two, then beat the brakes of him with my bare hands.
I got caught up in the moment and ignored my instincts and got punted through a building...shit barely tickled me, I was gassed, dusty but gassed. The reflex and equilibrium are most likely due to my tail and flexible spine because no matter how small or narrow the surface I could stand and crouch on it just fine. I can stick to surfaces and see in the dark and my fur blends in so well with the shadows I might as well be camouflaged since only my eyes are visible. I was able to dodge attacks from the spam clones and Aid blades that I wasn't even looking at. I seem to possess some sort of subconscious spatial awareness, likely a passive effect attributed to my teleportation. So with the range of that spatial awareness, I have no blind spots. My tail is also strong enough to not only pick up and toss an adult but the tip is so sharp I can pierce threw the skull and torso which allows me to speed blitz and annihilate clones with minimal effort. I can stick to shit and I have a healing factor not to the point of regenerating limbs but the cuts and bruises I got healed within five minutes.
But the ability that surprised me the most and probably my second favorite after teleportation. I'm able to generate and manipulate a form of bioelectricity that my body produces. I discovered it a few days after moving to Brocton Bay a month or so after my confrontation with The Teeth. Let's just say it involved a console I stole and leave it at that.
I used it quite a lot to get used to it my first month in Brocton Bay against The Archer's Bridge Merchants, commonly referred to as the Merchants, a supervillain gang operating in Brockton Bay. Their gang sign is a capital M with two vertical lines through it. I was living by a tourist shop when I first got here and that so happens to be their territory. I swear conflict just finds me. The Merchants were a small group of drug dealers with no real aspirations aside from getting rich selling and taking drugs, only using their powers to make their line of work less risky. Formed when various drug dealers and users gained superpowers. They operated from an abandoned tourist shop modeled after a lighthouse. Their leader was a guy who called himself Skidmark(willingly). Skidmark wears a mask that covers the top half of his face and later adds a cape to his costume. The lower half of his face is dark-skinned, with badly chapped lips and teeth that look like "shelled pistachio nuts". His health was visibly affected by his methamphetamine addiction. Except for Skidmark they only had three caped members that were known but it's suspected Skid's keeps a drug thinker stashed somewhere only he knows about. The known cape members are Squealer, Mush and Srub.
Squealer is an impoverished and unkempt Caucasian woman with a distinctly trashy appearance. Her attire is revealing and provocative, with one confrontation oil stain streaked across her, wearing a white top and jean shorts that were so skimpy they rendered her more indecent than if she had been naked. Additionally, Squealer is characterized by a chipmunk voice, and her makeup is applied excessively, to the point where it appears practically caked on. Overall, her appearance lacks refinement and a disregard for conventional standards of modesty...she's got a banging body though.
Squealer is identified as a Tinker with a specialization in vehicles, demonstrating particular expertise in crafting and modifying various types of transportation. Her focus lies in enlarging, enhancing, and adding features to the vehicles she constructs. This emphasis on size and augmentation reflects her Tinker specialization.
Notably, Squealer possesses an intuitive understanding of the functionality of the vehicles she creates, showcasing her remarkable skills as a driver. This proficiency allows her to operate her inventions with exceptional expertise, making her a highly skilled and capable driver behind the wheel of the vehicles she designs and builds...she's basically the reason Skids can transport his drugs safely...also did I mention her banging body?
Mush looks like a pink-skinned, scrawny goblin from a fantasy movie. He has thin hair, large eyes that are heavy-lidded with dark circles, and skinny limbs contrasted by a bulging pot belly.
Mush is a Changer who can form an expanded amorphous or vaguely humanoid body out of loose debris. His body can divide, stretch, fork out, and reconfigure itself into a mass of tendrils (not dissimilar from a mass of veins and arteries) that attach themselves to loose matter, such as dirt, compost, junk, sand, or mud.
His body then brings this loose matter together around his body, allowing him to craft himself a harder and bigger body. He can also redistribute it across his body so that if his arms are loaded with debris he can move some of it to cover his torso or head instead...so basically he's ugly and nasty.
As a consequence of his trigger event, Scrub displays distinctive features, including white hair with traces of white smoke emanating from it. This ethereal smoke is not limited to his hair; it billows from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. Additionally, there is a noticeable glow emitting from his mouth. These unique visual elements serve as visible manifestations of the impact and aftermath of Scrub's trigger event, contributing to his distinct appearance.
Scrub's power constantly generates beachball-sized spheres of energy in his immediate vicinity that manifest as flashes or bursts of white light. His spherical explosions appear to delete matter but typically leave the ground and buildings intact. I saw erase a beach ball-sized portion of a wall. Hmm, I might also be super smart because how do I get that from a hole in a wall?
It's been a few days since my most recent confrontation with The Merchants because of course I stealing their drug money. But I also realize that to have a place in not just Brocton Bay but anywhere you gotta either lead a gang of be part of a gang. Or join the Wards, which is a fuck no for me.
These past few days I've been doing my research on the local gangs of Brocton Bay.
The ABB (Azn Bad Boys) operated primarily out of the east end of the city, with their main base located in the area commonly referred to as the Docks. Their distinctive approach to recruitment set them apart, as they exerted pressure on all young Asians in that part of the city to join their ranks—a departure from the more common practice among Asian gangs that typically recruit from a specific ethnicity.
The criminal activities of the ABB encompassed a range of offenses, including theft, engaging in protection rackets, trafficking contraband, involvement in prostitution, and perpetration of sexual slavery. These illicit activities established the ABB as a notorious and multifaceted criminal organization within the city led by Lung. Firstly I'm not Asian...I think and secondly, again fuck no.
The Empire Eighty-Eight is a gang of white supremacists based in Brockton Bay. White supremacists who stand by those ideals. Unified in their hatred. To advance in the group, you need to grievously assault a non-white. They're led by Kaiser. I'm blue need and fuck no...need I say more?
Their other groups but in the end, I arrived at the same answer "fuck no" except one Faultline's Crew. Their fresh to the Bay like me and I heard they are recruiting as long as you pass her test. Their only three members so far and two are case 53s like me. Apparently, they're a mercenary group and are here for a few more days and then they leave for a job.
Now I could use a little breather from the Bay for a while and why the fuck not. Which is why I'm currently in front of the building where they're supposed to be staying in all my furry glory.
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