The Science of Supervillainy (The Supervillainy Saga Book 4) by C. T. Phipps

Author:C. T. Phipps [Phipps, C. T.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Amber Cove Publishing
Published: 2017-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

THE STATE OF THE SUPERVILLAIN UNION

“Must I?” I asked, raising my hands. “Because I’d prefer to live.”

The Human Tank’s helmet retracted, revealing the brown-haired woman beneath. “This is no laughing matter.”

“I laugh in the face of Death,” I said. “Well, not really, because she’s really done well by me.”

Clarissa Montehaven (formerly David Stockwell), a.k.a The Human Tank, was someone I didn’t want to fight. Not only because she’d been one of the people who’d helped fight against President Omega as part of the Shadow Seven, but also because I had known her longer than Cindy and Mandy put together.

Not well, but she’d been part of my brother’s gang, the Nefarious Nine, which was one of the more longstanding supervillain “clubs.” Clarissa had broken with the group not long after my brother’s death and had embarked on a successful solo career before trying to reform. She was also looking good for a woman pushing fifty, still sporting the Linda Hamilton look. Compliments to her surgeon. Maybe there was something to Cloak’s claim that superheroes and villains didn’t age until they did.

“There isn’t,” Cloak said. “I just made that up. The Society of Superheroes and Fraternity of Supervillains just have longevity spells as perks.”

“Nice to know,” I said, waiting for them to make the first move. Mandy and Amanda had moved into attack position, and I was more worried about them than I was Clarissa or her crew. Mostly because we were here to recruit an army. Not kill more of Falconcrest City’s supervillain population.

“Do you recognize any of these guys?” I mentally asked Cloak.

“No,” Cloak said. “Which could be good or bad.”

Falconcrest City’s collection of supervillains had been all but wiped out between our miniature zombie apocalypse and Mandy’s subsequent bloodthirst-driven rampage. These were all out-of-towners who’d been unable to cut it in their hometowns or newbies, which meant I could probably mop the floor with them.

Mandy, however, stepped in front of me. “Clarissa, put that gun down or I swear I will rip off your arm and shove it up your thermal exhaust port.”

“Mandy?” Clarissa said. “He’s made a robot of you too?”

Amanda glared. “This isn’t Merciful; it’s Merciless.”

A man dressed in a polka-dot leotard with a glowing eye-visor pointed at me. “Like it matters! You made a big mistake coming her—oh my god, my foot is on fire! Help! Oh shit, Christ, help! Oh god, now it’s frozen!”

The next supervillain, a woman dressed in a 1950s bubble-topped astronaut’s suit, aimed her ray gun at me only for Amanda to knock it out of her hand with a moon-shaped boomerang.

“You don’t know who you’re messing with,” Amanda said. “Yesterday, I let a bunch of decent people die to rescue these two. You have no idea what lengths I’ll go to in order to protect them.”

That was when Clarissa blasted Mandy with a concentrated blast of sunlight and caused her to smash against the wall behind me.

“Sunlight actually doesn’t work on vampires,” I said. “It’s annoying and makes them grouchy, but it doesn’t actually do anything.

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