Wonder City Stories III #41

[wonder_city]

We alllllmost made it to 10 comments, so I'm posting early in the week. If we can actually get 10 comments by Friday, I'll post a second episode. Let me know you're reading!


The Rabble Are Roused

"Oh, my god," Sophie said, staring at her screen. "The fucking Internet is going crazy."

Ivy opened her laptop and flipped through several windows. "My Twitter feed is nuts. People are talking about the broadcast, things that have been happening, the mod squads. Damn, Sophie, you streamed it into the BBC broadcasts too?"

"They're not very secure," Sophie said. Nereid squeezed her shoulders and Sophie looked up at her with a faint smile.

"I'm seeing it on Chinese and Japanese news outlets too," Ivy said.

"Al-Jazeera's got it," Simon said from behind his laptop.

"Okay, okay, we're stars," said Mercury impatiently. "Can we go do something now?"

Vector turned from the local troublespotting monitors with wide eyes. "Um, yeah, I think so."

"What's up?" Wire said, walking over.

"Riot in the business district," Vector said. "Assaults on men in black in the college district. Guys, I'm getting trouble lights all over the city."

"Let's split up and cover more ground," Mercury said, pacing.

"Michael forbade us to split up," Wire said tiredly.

"What's he going to do if we save more lives this way?" Mercury demanded.

"Cut us off without a penny," Wire said. "He'll do it, too."

Sophie said, rising and putting on her glasses, "I've got Cosmic Flyer 1 warming up now. I suggest we head for the riot first. Biggest casualty risk. Well," she said with a twisted smile, "biggest casualties we care about. Men in black? What men in black?"

Citizen Pain walked to the elevator door and said, "I am going out. Indeed, I will go without you if you continue to argue, Mercury. I do not care for your attitude when people are being injured."

Nereid and Sophie walked over to join him. After a moment, so did Vector, saying, "Mercury, you and Gemini can stay here and watch the monitor."

"But Ivy and Simon…" Mercury said, in between gaping at them.

"Aren't members of the Young Cosmics," said Wire, following the rest onto the elevator. "Or we can patch it into the transport. Your choice, Merc."

In the end, of course, the whole team left together, though Mercury didn't shut up with his bitching. Nereid had to wonder what Ivy and Simon were doing. Hopefully having a beer and a pizza.

Comments

[wispfox]

I'm totally reading! :)

[akycha]

That last line makes me think the next episode is going to be about Ivy and Simon, who are probably not having a beer and a pizza. And this is totally fair guessing, because I cannot remember a thing about the next episode.

[kore]

Definitely reading! :-)

[(Anonymous)]

I do appreciate the character tags at the end for when I've completely forgotten who a particular name refers to. They're as good as a wiki.

--interleaper

[italiceyeball]

Another reader! Just a quiet one.

[clstal]

I would agree, and I'm hoping they're not!! :-)

[silverbackbutch]

I'm reading!

[talia_et_alia]

I can't wait to see how this ends - here's hoping for another update soon!

Reading

[(Anonymous)]

I hope that Megan and Ivy are okay after their brainwashing. Simon too.

[(Anonymous)]

We got more! Yay!!!

-Seversen

[heavenscalyx]

Awesome! Thank you!

[heavenscalyx]

Nope! They're hoping for beer and pizza, but maybe later. :)

[heavenscalyx]

YAY!

[heavenscalyx]

I'm so glad they're useful! I'm glad I started using them too -- when I'm writing and have to remember how to spell character names, for instance. (Me: "Is it Madeline or Madeleine? Dammit, gotta look it up.")

[heavenscalyx]

Thank you for commenting!

[heavenscalyx]

YAY!

[heavenscalyx]

Thank you!

Re: Reading

[heavenscalyx]

It'll be hard, but we'll get to see some of that.

[heavenscalyx]

YAY! :)