Supers - Ex Heroes 2 by Jamie Hawke

Author:Jamie Hawke [Hawke, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Double Down Press
Published: 2018-05-22T22:00:00+00:00

12

It was eerie, walking around in the open when we knew this supervillain of supervillains, Ranger, could possibly be on planet by now. When we’d last met, it had been brief and he didn’t know I was someone worth paying attention to. By now I imagined he knew I was one of Apollo’s sons, to say nothing of the fact that I’d just helped steal one of his main guys and attacked another.

The streets of the bazaars were what I imagined Tunisia to be like, based on tourist sites I’d checked out when planning my graduation trip with some friends. We’d ended up going to Canada instead, which was still interesting, but not exactly what I’d been expecting. Since I didn’t see myself getting to Tunisia any time soon—let alone Earth—I made the most of it, enjoying talking with the shopkeepers, smelling some of the local spices, and sampling some of the fried meat dumplings they sold.

We ended up eating at a square that was basically a series of benches surrounding a statue of a great warrior, sword held high. It could’ve been somewhere in Italy for all I knew, if I hadn’t known we were on an alien planet, deep in the ground. Ships were coming and going overhead, groups of tourists coming for the fights.

As I was watching them all pour in, something hit me. “Didn’t you say that pregnancy was rare here? So how can there be so many?”

“Well, it’s rarer among the supers,” Twitch explained. “However, even among them, there was a time when a certain Tier One super who called herself a goddess would go around and, basically, her powers helped others be more fertile.”

“And I hear there was a time when it wasn’t so rare,” Gale chimed in. “Though, that would have been for people older than us, for sure.”

I nodded, supposing that made sense, in a weird way. It explained why I saw so many fewer children than adults.

“Might not want to eat too many of those before the fight,” Twitch noted, looking at the last two meat pies on the table.

“You’re just saying that so you can have more,” I said.

She shrugged, taking the last one after scooting the other to Gale. “And because it’s true.”

“Truth… a thin line between what’s the truth and what isn’t,” Gale said.

“What?” I looked up at her, waiting for more.

She took a bite, stared at me as she chewed, and then finally swallowed. “I’m saying… when was the last time you got the full picture? The complete black and white truth?”

“Are you not telling me something?”

“Not from me,” she said with a laugh, taking her tea that smelled like a cross between mint and nutmeg—odd, but it worked. “From everyone. I was a bad guy on that prison ship, until I wasn’t. You were a nobody, until you weren’t. For all we know, Ranger could have proper motivations and have some angle here that makes sense to us. What is truth?”

I leaned forward, took another sip of my tea, and then nodded.

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