Of all the moments in her life Eva had never felt so utterly bewildered then as of this moment. Besides the fact that a massively large tentacle predator stood over a collapsed building liking it’s eyeballs with some sort of tongue, she was mostly sure those were it’s eyeballs anyways; now her past has crept up on her and is now flirting with her. Her mouth froze in a daze as Steph snapped her fingers under Eva’s nose. “Heya! You alright there, kinda seem out of it.”
Eva shook as her mind returned to reality. “Alright. Do you think I’m bloody alright!? I got this thing whose..” She paused as the beast began rifling through the rubble to munch on a body. “DON’T EAT THAT! Damn cheeky bugger. Right then you start trying to shag me, what the hell am I supposed to think!?”
The beast took a but a second to look Evas’ way to ignore her and continue on picking away at the poor sods body. “Well he’s a impressive bloke, what ya going to call him?”
“I ain’t calling him anything, I am gonna find a way to return it to wherever it came from and get on with my life, and don’t dodge the question.”
Stephanie held up her fingers to frame the beast between them.”Dickens. Yeah. That’s Aces.”
“Wah?”
Steph stopped to respond to Eva,”It’s his name, he looks like a Dickens.”
“No! It’s not getting a name. Not having it. And you’re stalling what the hell are you even doing here, you’re rich?”
“See. A lot has happened since you left Le Rosey. I hated that place a much as you did, firstly I got me this awesome power, the Family wouldn’t have it course so they wanted to call for those experimental procedures where they remove your powers. Bull crap that was, so after some minor damage and slight injuries to my Father, which was only slightly intentional. Here I am, penniless with the power to bust open a bank vault. Besides do you think I’d socialize with anyone of lesser birth if it wasn’t for work. Pff. I’m a Merc now, sure it doesn’t pay for all the luxuries I used to have but it’s bloody good fun. So on that note it’s really good to see you we lesser nobility need to stick together. Especially in these hard times.”
“So.” Eva said puzzled by her current predicament.”You’re cut off. Okay. Not helpful in the slightest. What the hell are we going to do about it?”
“Dickens.”
“Still not helpful!” Eva exclaimed. “Right, well I. Have to make a call.”
“Who you gonna call. Hehe. Ghostbusters reference.”
Eva exhaled with exasperation as he fingers tapped out a number printed on a card, the same one she had been given by Boom earlier. "This is Boom." She said with the slightest quiver in her voice. She was greeted by the familiar accented voice of her most recent contact. Eva.
“Right. Where to bloody start. So you wouldn’t happen to know a Pub on the Docks of Little Sicily by the name of Finnegans? There, was a little incident --” As Eva talked Dickens tugged on the back of her hoodie trying to get her attention. “Stop that. I, sorry that’s part of my pro.. DON’T YOU DARE!” Dickens had been shoving a corpse over to Eva in it’s attempt to share it’s bounty with her. With an audible sigh Eva continued. ”Okay before I get interrupted again Finnegans was, destroyed. You remember that, thing the monster from earlier. I guess it has, imprinted on me or something. I don’t fucking know anymore. There’s just too much crazy going on in my life. I came here to kinda establish myself, as a hero you know. ‘Stop the Pax Metahumana’ Arthur said. Be a hero he said. Find out why my friends were killed he said. I’m a girl with a magical sword, okay. I don’t know what I’m doing let alone how to find this Pax guy.”
Boom blinked twice, surprise plastered on her face. Okay. Not what I was expecting. She grumbled internally. Laura had been hoping that someone needed their ass kicked; but alas, the English foreigner had other, more bizarre problems. "Uhhmm." She stammered. "Yeah, I've heard of the place. Dad always told me to steer clear of that place. It was trouble. Probably a good thing its gone, honestly. Uhhh, I don't know how to help you with your...monster problem...But hey, don't get your knickers in a twist (or whatever the hell they say across the pond); I've got some 'friends' trying to track down Pax Metahumana. In fact, they're planning their assault right now. I could take you there- But.." Laura paused, sinking her teeth into her bottom lip.
"They're teaming up with a mercenary who tried to poison all of Lost Haven. The fucking fuckwad tried to fucking kill us all. Motherfucker." Boom paused once more. "Sorry. Not a good day. I'll pick you up and take you there if that's what you want."
"Uh, sure."
Before Eva knew it, she had been whisked away in a cloud of dust by a bright light. Moments later, before the poor girl could even process what was happening, she was standing in front of Arthur's Tower in the center of Sherman Square. "You alright?" Laura asked, feeling guilty that she hadn't given Eva any warning before grabbing her at mach 250. If it weren't for the ever enigmatic lightning effect, Eva would've been paste. Luckily all she'd likely be suffering from was minor nausea. "Go on ahead. the Elevator's pretty clearly marked. I'm uh, gonna stay out here. Clear my head a bit, ya know?" With that, the speedster zoomed off to the roof to sulk.
Eva stumbled forward gasping for air, the trip Boom had given her and after she said a few words disappeared in a flash leaving Eva nauseated. Dickens surprisingly was in her Hoodie pocket poking his head out, somewhat disorientated his normal roars reduced to mere cries in his current size that of a Parakeet which was almost cute in a way. Her balance swayed as she walked towards the building, one of the few intact in the middle of wherever she was. A war zone clearly. A well dressed Butler greeted her having seen Boom whizz of to who knows where; Eva pressed the call button and the doors dinged open and proceeded to scan with a series of beams that confounded Eva unsure of what they were doing as the doors closed shut and the elevator rose to the top floor within moments.
The room was filled with Supers, or at least Eva guess they were by Icon’s presence she had never seen any of them before; perhaps in newspapers but none of the faces stuck to memory. Her hoodie obscured her face best that it could but anyone observant enough could probably see parts of her face if not in it’s entirety. “I. Came with Boom.. The Slag in blue lighting stripes can vouch for me.” Eva said with a nervous smile.
