Or as Luthor would call it, chump change. Also it seems like the market for seaweed suddenly grew a lot in 2020, and it's not 2020 in story yet.
Well he does try to emulate Lex, so it makes sense that he'd continue the tradition of being a pain in the ass.
It's a shame the economy and transportation sectors are still so fucked. Because I've said it before and I'll keep saying it, a henge network would probably do wonders when it comes to working around the "not everyone can be an archmage" problem by concentrating and directing ambient magic through a leyline magic to prepared locations. Doesn't matter if your corporate or government wizards don't have as much personal power as the Big Boys if they can just tap into a sufficiently large source of external magic via the almighty power of infrastructure.
Vocal override? Good plan, if you can make yourself heard over shit going sideways. Also, saw blades seem a bit excessive for a planting unit. Unless they're for tree-roots or something. Unfortunately, that makes them especially potent against people, too.
And no emergency drill could prepare you for something like this, either.
Electric vehicle, so that's probably a lithium-ion battery in there. And they are not known for stability when...
...Breached. Seriously, Look up lithium-Ion batteries cooking off on your video site of choice. They are way too energetic. Unfortunately, they're also the best option we have until someone develops somethign cheaper, more efficient or both...
Definitely not a single freak malfunction. The SUV going dark suggested it, but this confirms it. Someone is out to get either Mitchell or Eve.
And any one of those options would blow your admittedly-loose cover. Rendering this whole exercise pointless.
OF course, you are a fairly fit young man, and trained by Amazons. So going a little beyond the norm is manageable.
Pretty much instinct, yes.
...I have the feeling Enginehead is in manual control.
Yeah, it's not likely that you would trip, and a moment of flight would compensate for it, but... Undercover.
Presumably as some part of their sensor network. Vocal commands, at the least.
Depending on how they steer, last-second dodges could be effective. As long as you keep out of the way of those saws while you do so.
Heh. All that training paying off.
So much for that paddock, if nothing else.
Though I imagine the amounts of air needed to induce that state are far larger. Worst case, blame any discrepancies on Amazon training.
Definitely being controlled by someone. A complex tactical move like that is probably not in their basic coding.
Heh. Inadvertent compliment, though I doubt she'll remember it.
...Do you want to try and reach it past the saws?
Logical. This is certainly proving that correct.
Do they respond to sign-language? Written signage? And would the bots respond even if they could hold up a 'Shut Down!' flag?
So not much faster than, say, a golf-cart. That's still a couple of tons of mass, and waving around sawblades.
So holding up a sign would work. Good luck getting a chance to write one.
Yeah, this is no more malfunction. This is a hit.
Which isn't a great idea, but the alternative is hauling ass around the field with them chasing you like a goddamn Benny Hill finale.
And how fast can you write?
And that still relies on whatever's controlling them not overriding the safety protocols.
Just don't freeze up. A big ask for someone who's not in the usual branches of Lexcorp that might see trouble...
He's probably just waiting for you to 'show your true colours' or something, if he's aware of this situation.
Would be bad if one coudl tell the other to head them off.
Let's not cut it so close Eve loses a few hairs to their blades, anime-style.
If nothing else, he's looking real bad-ass to whoever's in control of the bots...
With any luck, it gets tangled in the gate wreckage...
Lex the supervillain knows who he is. Lex the honest business does not.
It's the one-two punch of him being strong, clever, and capable to activate the monkey-brain, and being adorkable and kind to tug the heartstrings.
…why? Also, pretending for who? He has to know that LexCorp knows full well who and what he is. Not like 'adopted son of Wonder Woman' is an identity that will avoid scrutiny in the first place.
What possibilities? Diana doesn't seem to have any difficulties with people knowing her legal identity.
Lex Luthor also knows who Superman is. The issue is that while LexCorp more or less got away with creating the genomorphs, cloning Superman would get them in a lot more trouble. Not legal trouble, popular perception trouble. Heck, most of their own staff wouldn't accept it. Meanwhile, the Justice League doesn't want to broadcast it in case someone else gets ideas and to allow the boys to have a life. But if he reveals himself, that all changes.
And neither does the SI. Kal-El on the other hand prefers to keep them separate, and his point of view is the local majority.
