Somebody Stop Him: A SuperheroApocalypse LitRPG (Somebody Stop Her Book 2) by Vitaly S. Alexius

Author:Vitaly S. Alexius [Alexius, Vitaly S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Podium Publishing
Published: 2025-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter thirty-two

The Implement I

Ifound myself standing on a field of rubble and ice, stretching endlessly to the horizon. In the distance, broken skyscrapers loomed impossibly tall, their hollowed-out floors wrapped in ancient glaciers. The sky above was a sickly purple-gray, casting everything in a dim, gloomy light.

Cold wind whipped at my face, carrying the scent of decay and something else—something metallic and strange. The air itself felt wrong, stale, dead for millennia.

Something pulsed in my pocket like a living thing. My hand descended and discovered the lighter Zee Captain had given me. I pulled it out, studying its grimy, steel, scratched-up surface.

I flicked it open. The flame that ignited seemed normal, and it pushed the gloom away just a little bit, made me feel marginally less cold and lonely. The flickering light cast eerie shadows, making the rubble around me shift and writhe.

“Gud tomorrow,” a voice came from behind me.

I spun around and spotted a familiar figure in a long dark-blue coat sitting on a lawn chair, camped on the surface of the glacier that we were inhabiting.

The violet lenses of Zee Captain’s gas mask reflected the light cast by the lighter.

“Where is this?” I asked.

“Captania,” he answered. “Dead Zone. The infinite corpse of the surface of Eureka omnistructure.”

“This some kind of a dream?” I asked, studying the desolate landscape. “Why isn’t my skin melting off? Why do those buildings have infinite floors?”

“Dreams, reality—such limiting concepts.” Zee Captain waved a gloved hand dismissively. “As for ze buildings … perspective is relative when reality itself has been rewritten so many times. Ze Rules are more like … vague suggestions here. Ze Numbers have long given up on this place, let it twist itself into a very angry over-salted pretzel.”

“Uh-huh.” I nodded, focusing on Captain and not the way the skyscrapers loomed in the distance, seemingly stretching up forever and ever. “Why am I here?”

“Because I had a job to take a newly minted Wizardling to Manchester,” Zee sighed. “And I failed.”

“A Wizardling?” I asked, settling onto a broken chunk of concrete nearby. The lighter’s flame flickered but held steady, pushing back the oppressive darkness. I didn’t let go of the button that released the flame even as it burned my fingers ever so slightly, feeling that Captain might vanish if I do. “You mean Alexa?”

“Ja.” Zee nodded, violet lenses gleaming. “I’m still going to have to do my job, for I am a Good Wizard.”

“What does that mean?” I asked.

“It means zat I must take you to Manchester,” Zee Captain replied casually. “And also that I cannot take you to Manchester because you don’t have a Fractal Engine on you anymore. Zee problem is that Alexa stepped out of the predetermined boundary of what was permitted. I am therefore at an impasse, uncertain of what to do with you.”

“An impasse?” I asked, watching the lighter’s flame dance. “What exactly happened with Alexa? Why can’t you take me to Manchester?”

“She destroyed ze transit terminal and hijacked ze train,” Zee Captain sighed, violet lenses dimming slightly.

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