Mystery from Another World--MHA

Part 171: Intelli's life hacks

"Oh, really?"

"Yeah, in a flash of light," the first went on, "I hear that's how some people vanished from one of the attacks. They were just gone, no warp gate or nothing, just a bright light. Creepy, right?"

"Yeah..." Triclops said idly, "but...that kind of reminds me of this dream I had last night."

"What?"

"It was weird... I dreamed that we were all here, and this really bright light just burst out of nowhere, and there was this explosion or something, and the forest just crumpled down on us," Triclops said.

"Wow...that's weird," the first voice said, sounding scared.

"I mean, I thought, you know, there's a bunch of pros that would fit, though," Triclops said, "but it sounds like what happened today too, so that's just a weird coincidence... You believe dreams ever mean anything, Mac?"

"I've never been superstitious," Mac answered, "so no... Though it's still weird..."

"Kind of creeps me out," Triclops said, "I mean, I'm fine with fighting the LOV but, I don't know. If there's new people with them who have power I don't really know about, I'd rather just run. Collect intel."

"Same, but I don't think the High Father would like it if we did that," Mac said, "Between you and me, I think he's taking this personally. I mean, no one's ever raided us this many times in one day. I'd say the only way it could happen is if someone hacked us."

"Hacked us? But...but you're the internet guy."

"Yeah, I am," Mac said, "but there's other internet guys... Still you'd think I'd detect it... Maybe I should be checking the control room instead of doing this."

"So no sign of them carrying phones, huh?"

"Nah... Too bad I can only sense Wi-Fi, huh?" Mac said, "If I could sense any electronic pulse, I'm sure we'd have found them by now. Life isn't fair."

"Hey, don't say that about your meta ability. You're really OP," Triclops said, "Mine is less cool."

"You know you're not supposed to say that. Meta and Proud, dude."

"I know, I know."

[Gag at that shameless X-MEN rip off.]

Silk moved even in the dark, and suddenly both of them were caught in her cords and yanked together before they even knew what happened.

Compress compressed them.

"Well...that was weird," he said.

"I have never been superstitious either," Silk said, "but I think we may want to tip Likstar off about this little dialogue we hear...and then release these morons back to their owners."

"I like how you think, Kira," Compress said.

* * *

Taking down the guards on the bridge was easier than they thought it would be.

Maybe the team had finally synced up their fighting styles, maybe the guards were just scared of them now that they'd gotten this far, or maybe there was some other factor, but they just seemed to go down easy.

"Why don't we team fight more?" Camie said, "I mean, we'd win so much faster if we all attacked at once."

"It's kind of like ganging up on someone, though. It feels a little unfair," Shoto said.

"If that bothers you, don't fight people who want us dead," Spinner sniffed, "Was it fair for them to attack us the way they did?"

"Lizard Man is right for once." Mirko brushed her hands off. "But they were still pansies. Where's the tough opponents?"