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Calvert getting his comeuppance never does get old. The empire getting dumpstered is also always nice to see.
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So.... how pissed will Lisa be that she got so distracted by the hundreds of thousands of dollars of Empire cash, that she missed the chance to collect tens of millions from Coil's stashes?Lisa's expression morphed back to a grin. "There's more, but I'm still figuring that out. Right now, you know what we've got the chance to do?"
Brian frowned suspiciously. "No, but I'm sure you're going to tell me."
"Stash houses. Empire and ABB both. We can hit a whole bunch of them in a short time before anyone's the wiser." Lisa spread her arms wide. "Fuck the drugs, we'll take the cash. All that lovely, filthy lucre. Hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth. Maybe millions. All ours for the taking."
Alec chose this moment to peer around the corner of the corridor. "Did someone say something about millions, and ours for the taking?"
"She sure did." Brian turned and headed toward his bedroom. "Suit up. Get Rachel up. We're doing this."
Behind him, Lisa closed her laptop with a clack. "Mwahahaha."
So.... how pissed will Lisa be that she got so distracted by the hundreds of thousands of dollars of Empire cash, that she missed the chance to collect tens of millions from Coil's stashes?
Well, its possible that due to how hush-hush the Coil thing is being handled, she doesn't actually know that Coil has gotten bagged yet. So it could be less 'gotten distracted' and more 'isn't aware of this information yet'. Or, as has been said by another commenter, that she is focusing on the more time sensitive objective first. Or perhaps that since she had already been awake for some time, that she had already started the process of doing that? There's multiple possibilities here.So.... how pissed will Lisa be that she got so distracted by the hundreds of thousands of dollars of Empire cash, that she missed the chance to collect tens of millions from Coil's stashes?
Coil isn't nearly as solvent in this fic as he is in canon. Every time he tries to expand his holdings, he gets shut down by the PRT.So.... how pissed will Lisa be that she got so distracted by the hundreds of thousands of dollars of Empire cash, that she missed the chance to collect tens of millions from Coil's stashes?
coil doesn't have the endbringer shelter in this?Coil isn't nearly as solvent in this fic as he is in canon. Every time he tries to expand his holdings, he gets shut down by the PRT.
He's got money, sure, just not a huge amount. No Bond Villain Base. No horde of mercenaries.
Lisa will get to him in time, though, once she finishes connecting the dots about his arrest.
He does not.
That certainly explains why his "safe" timeline was in his own house.He does not.
He sank a ton of money into bribes and kickbacks and such, but the PRT pinged it (despite his best efforts) before it properly got started. The builder ended up in a lot of trouble, but he had enough cut-outs involved that he managed to slide out of the way before attention got to him.
He's still pissed about that.
It does, doesn't it?That certainly explains why his "safe" timeline was in his own house.
In this one, he goes one step farther to 'rejected' Bond villain.Yeah, Coil is very much a fan of extreme hubris like that. Even if he wasn't able to actually be one in this fic, 'reject bond villain' continues to be the best description of him i've ever heard.
Man, that Mitch guy has no survival drive at all. It's not like "giant monster dogs" are a subtle, easy to miss danger. He's lucky he got tazed before he got turned into their chew toy.
I'll vote for "critical lack of threat assessment"; the Undersiders were right there after all, and even if the E88 capes were still free the odds of an Empire cape showing up in time to do Mitch any good would have been really poor. Heck, even if one was nearby most of them would wait for reinforcements since they wouldn't want to take on all the Undersiders at once by themselves.It may have been that he was working on insufficiently current information about the status of the Empire capes, thus thinking that cape reinforcement WOULD be available if called for. It could also have been that he was just too used to being sufficiently personally threatening that he thought the Undersiders would leave because he was sufficiently threatening. Of course, neither of those reduces the likelihood of the other in the slightest, so it could very easily be both, combined with a critical lack of threat assessment.
He was also a dick, and might have been under the effects of drugs.I'll vote for "critical lack of threat assessment"; the Undersiders were right there after all, and even if the E88 capes were still free the odds of an Empire cape showing up in time to do Mitch any good would have been really poor. Heck, even if one was nearby most of them would wait for reinforcements since they wouldn't want to take on all the Undersiders at once by themselves.
ah, but you forgot to divide his IQ by NaziMan, that Mitch guy has no survival drive at all. It's not like "giant monster dogs" are a subtle, easy to miss danger. He's lucky he got tazed before he got turned into their chew toy.
I'll vote for "critical lack of threat assessment"; the Undersiders were right there after all, and even if the E88 capes were still free the odds of an Empire cape showing up in time to do Mitch any good would have been really poor. Heck, even if one was nearby most of them would wait for reinforcements since they wouldn't want to take on all the Undersiders at once by themselves.
I'm just imagining it to be a vault making material, like build a structure out of it then store [DATA] in it and only the entity who made it can open it.
In fact we already know of at least one; Monochrome's enhancement power does work on it, and she can break it. But the list of things that Monochrome/the Siberian can't break is...short
Lily can technically effect it ... so long as she brings along something that would normally be able to affect it.- which is what threw me for a loop, here. I was under the impression that Sting and Sibirian's Shard were siblings in the same sense as Queenie and High Priest are siblings: expressions of the same abilities* as viewed through the lens of the Warrior and the Thinker, respectively.
In other words, since Monochrome could affect this material, I expected Lily to also be able to affect it...
Well, maybe I am wrong about the relation of these Shards, or maybe it's different in this particular continuity. :3
*Edit: maybe "functions" is the better word here. Management for QA and HP, ultimate offence in the other pair.