[i][color=#ffcccc]People are dangerous. Capes are especially dangerous. Villains are potentially dangerous, but heroes will always make themselves a danger if you give them the chance. Change is dangerous; this Final Guard thing is change for the heroes. Further research required to know the big picture, but investigating dangers is dangerous,[/color][/i] Audrie's thoughts buzzed as she walked down the rundown street, hands in the pockets of her hoodie, hood up, eyes on the sidewalk. 

Normally she would mind her own business, but she had run out of scrap for tinkering again. [i][color=#ffcccc]Safety by the pound. [/color][/i]

She vaguely knew that everything she did was illegal, but dumpster diving had been the kind of thing you didn't want cops seeing even before the world ended. That, and even --was it a year?-- on, any kind of caping still had that illicit itch to it, that edge of transgressing the fundamental rules of society. Any nervousness aside, she knew a few good spots in this home that never failed to let her down. First stop was an electronics store with a dumpster out back that had been good enough to her in the past. 

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As Audrie turned onto the street where her foraging ground was, she saw a crowd in front of the store, loosely gathered around a woman with long hair in weird clothes. [i][color=#ffcccc]Cape. [/color][/i]Her fingers scrambling in the hoodie's oversized central pocket to verify the tinkerings she had brought just in case were still there (not everything she would bring on an in-costume mission, but including her modded phone and a few simpler traps), she picked up the pace slightly and took the first available turn off the street into a tiny alley between buildings, activating her stealth power once she was out of sight. 

She was enveloped in that faint static feeling of her power, that coiled danger that --unlike every other danger, and she knew plenty of different kinds-- felt good and powerful and [i]her's[/i], and she could imagine what it must have looked like as she smeared or pixelated and faded out. She looked to the other end of the alley, thinking about how to get closer. 

[i][color=#ffcccc]The tank that shoots first wins because most hits are lethal. Need to take the lead on information. Capes are dangerous. [/color][/i]