Chilling Reflections (Villains' Code Book 3) by Drew Hayes

Author:Drew Hayes [Hayes, Drew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-08T00:00:00+00:00

VRX77 shook off that last punch to discover it was held in the grip of another costumed mascot, this time a humanoid frog clad in a red jacket and matching hat. Firefighter Frog had in alliteration what he lacked in thematic cohesion, along with a pretend firetruck strapped to him like a backpack.

“What… the…” As a wanderer of the multiverse, VRX77 had experienced much and witnessed more, but there were some sights strange enough to warrant a moment of befuddlement.

Only a moment, though. Surprise acknowledged, VRX77 moved to shake off the casual grip it was held in. The hands, however, did not budge.

Panic immediately set in. Being pitted against an enemy with comparably more raw strength was neither a new dilemma nor an insurmountable task, but in those cases there would at least be some wiggle in the grip. For it to hold completely steady limited the explanations, and none of those answers were good.

Testing the worst case first, VRX77 attempted to activate a dimensional shift, only to find it failing. Something was keeping the system locked down, and it was connected to the frog mascot. More struggling yielded no change, while wasting the most essential resource: time.

When Punchytime Panda emerged from the burning coaster remains, VRX77 estimated any chances at success to be well below the twenty percent threshold, the risk point at which it would typically retreat. Seeing a third mascot emerge from behind a building to the coaster’s left, VRX77 adjusted those odds down even further. What threat a deer in a chef’s hat would pose, one could only imagine, but based on the panda and the frog, it was sure to be a pain.

All three mascots gathered around the captured metal form, staring down with their empty, glassy eyes. VRX77’s scanners kept indicating they were nothing more than automatons, but sensors could be fooled. Whatever these three were, they had VRX77 dead to rights. All that remained now was the inevitable end.

Except when the deer reached out, Punchytime Panda gently blocked the hand. Shaking his black-and-white head, Punchytime Panda pointed off into the sky, where a dark shape could be seen blazing across the sky.

Hephaestus. They were waiting for Hephaestus.

Though the sentiment would never be conveyed, VRX77 approved. If it was really all going to come to end, if this was the final expedition, there was truly no one more fitting to kill VRX77 than Tori Rivas.

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