There were some things Mold just didn't do as a rule. Top of that list was injesting enough coal to fatally poison an elephant. Alright, maybe not top of the list but it was definitely ON the list. But, today the HA said it needed heavy hitters, and heavy hitters don't die from a single body blow. So here she was, covered in plates of compressed carbon, juicing her muscles as strong as they would go and dreading the purge she was going to have to do in order to get all the carbon out of her body. It'd take at LEAST a week.

Another thing she didn't do was juice her muscles or throw her hearing wide open to hear every footfall in the area. Really that list should be called "things I say I don't do then do them anyway because I'm an idiot."

And this is why, when one of the patrols went down, Mold was running around the corner seconds later. She didn't waste time on banter or demands, instead leaping directly at her victim's chest and digging her armored claws into the metal, trying to rip the plating apart.

She also didn't waste time waiting for backup.