when it rains, it pours

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“Honor, who’s the blonde?” Annie chuckled. She saw the girl leave Honor’s apartment and if she was being honest, she never expected the younger woman to have it in her. For as careful and as critical as the inhuman was, she expected her to keep mostly to herself. “So… did you have some fun?”

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“Just a girl I’m seeing... I guess.” Honor rebuttoned her shirt and furrowed her brows as her lips curled into a frown. “I don’t think I liked that encounter. She seemed different and honestly quite terrifying.” She fooled around with the blonde before, but the other woman seemed so much more aggressive. That and she was uncomfortably warm to the touch. It was like trying to be intimate with a radiator. “Anyways, why are you here? You seem oddly different as well.”

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veraelwyn‌:

every now and again, when vera had the time to be sentimental, she would miss her old team. and why wouldn’t she? she spent a significant amount of time with them. with the rangers, her agents, her team. she would always try to keep her personal attachment to them at bay, and for the most part, vera was successful. she cared for them, though. she always had and always would. those at inner sanctum were her family when she lost hers. it only made sense to show she cared every once in a while.

vera cared, yes. and that’s why she always kept her ears and eyes open; to the ground, to the skies in the hopes of hearing anything new about those who had left and were no longer apart of inner sanctum. she would get news here and there about past agents. some had moved far, far away from the city long ago, some had stayed and gone underground, radio silent. of course, she never reached out. knowing that they were alright and living a life they wanted was enough for her. that changed though when vera caught wind of ex-ranger honor park, who had taken it upon herself to set up shop at an unused safe house. she wasn’t to be treated as a hostile, of course - but to a few new faces at inner sanctum, honor’s presence caused suspicion.

upon entering the safe house, it was exactly what vera imagined it would look like. - for the most part.run down and dusty and even a little hollow. but seeing the back of honor working away causing a sense of welcomed familiarity.  miss elwyn. no longer a ranger or apart of the inner sanctum and yet respect is still instilled into honor. or, the girl was born to be polite as all hell. “honor,” vera greets the young woman with a casual smile, “it’s good to see you.” attentive hues glance over the workspace.

“this is what you’ve been doing?” she asks, eyes drifting back to honor with the weapon still in her hands. moving forward to stand beside the young woman, vera’s eyes dart of the other pieces honor has put together. “i wouldn’t have expected anything less from you.” she comments with a small smile of pride illuminating red painted lips. there’s always been a spark within honor that vera wanted to desperately nurture. but, with the world ending on multiple occasions - and then eventually stepping down as inner sanctums director to pursue something else, it was rather unimaginable at the time.

vera could have tried harder, though. she could always try harder. – - that’s also why she’s here in the first place. “how’ve you been?” vera turns, her sights fully locking onto honor.

Honor was a quiet person and she almost seemed out of place in any workshop. Places like that were always loud. From the sounds of hammering metal, grinding it down or using the furnace, the silence could never find a comfortable spot to sit. She liked it that way. She didn’t have to worry about how to put together her thoughts or if she could say the right words. She could just work and focus on creating a tangible piece of perfection. 

In a world that liked to take away the good and the young, she pulled herself back from her personal troubles and looked for other things she could focus on. Naturally, she fell into her work and then decided to test her pieces against new parameters. Her disagreement with Inner Sanctum procedures on her personal case and the lack of access to IS technologies lead her to the option of vigilante work. “It’s nice to see you as well.” She smiled. She didn’t believe that her activities as ‘Critical,’ thoughtfully given to her by Antoinette, would warrant a visit from Vera, but she was glad to see the other woman. 

“It’s what I know best.” She explained. Honor lightly pressed her finger against the cutting edge of the blade. It still wasn’t sharp enough to cut, thankfully. “I usually try to return to the things I’m most comfortable with when I feel overwhelmed.” The recent past left her with too many losses to manage on her own and she wasn’t good at keeping it all inside. “If I had been notified of your arrival sooner, I would have tidied up a bit, or fixed the security system. Right now, I only have my dog, but he tends to sleep around this time and he isn’t very good at cleaning.”

Her brows knitted together at Vera’s question. She set the blade down slowly, while exhaling just as slow. “I blamed myself for the dome incident and not being able to save my friends.” Three rangers were killed during the chaos and she was also badly injured. While all that happened, two rangers were stuck outside of the dome and one cowered, never leaving his damn flower shop. She had been so angry, but Honor was never made to hold that much rage. “I’m much better now. How have you been? I’ve seen your daughter running around.”

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jvonr‌:

“To people like me… That sounds a little prejudiced.” She pouted and took a couple more steps toward Honor before she took her index finger and pushed the blade down. “I’m just looking for a spear that I lost a couple centuries ago. I’ll even give you the reason why I need it.” With her strength, she pushed the blade down even further. “I know what you’re capable of, child, but you’ll be as good as dead if you don’t prepare for what’s coming like I am. The Society’s been quiet, but people change when things become too peaceful.”

“I don’t carry ancient spears and I will fight against your secret societies and cults.” Honor then focused her energies to her hands. The weapon she was holding glowed white before a brilliant blue flame erupted from the hilt and covered the blade. She sliced in front of her and then vaulted over the table. She lunged for another attack. “Leave!” Ceres was a big city so she wasn’t very happy with the idea of being found by a woman like this monster. It meant that she was actually searching for her and Honor hated the idea of being on someone’s radar.

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vntoinctte‌: 

“You’re right… I should clean up after myself.” Annie watched Honor disappear down the stairs whilst she stayed behind to disintegrate the rest of the bookshelf. She also took her time to extend her aura to the guard they had dropped earlier. “You know, I thought these things would get a lot cleaner, but I guess we’re not professionals at this yet.” She said, unsure if Honor could hear her or not, but she continued to speak anyways. “If it gets easy then that means that something is wrong.”

When it became obvious that Honor wasn’t listening, she sighed and continued to speak to herself. “She’d be mad about this, but if I don’t then another one just as bad as her dad will come up… so I have to do it… I have to be strong because she’s not here anymore.” Annie placed her hand on the wall in front of her and closed her eyes for just a moment of rest. It didn’t last very long, however. She heard Honor’s cry for help and she rushed down to send out a pulse of her energy. The wave swept through the room, slicing through the collection of weaponry. When she hit her mark, she heard their defeated gurgles. Annie reconstructed her head before offering a hand to Honor. “What the fuck is this stuff?”

The sound of death just wasn’t something that Honor ever enjoyed, but she was glad that it wasn’t her at the receiving end. She sat up and kept herself rested on the stairs. “A come back, maybe. They’re a criminal syndicate, and you told me that their bosses are gone. Those two facts together usually mean that someone worse will try to rise up to fill in the spot.” She frowned and then took the mask off of her head. Honor placed it down and sighed. “Before we torch this place, let me take some of the weapons. A little reverse engineering will do both of us some good.” 

“I was thinking of trying to get back onto active duty. I really hate wearing this mask when I fight. The Inner Sanctum isn’t a secret anymore, so I can show my face. Maybe then I can knock some sense into my sister.” Honor inspected the edge of her swords. “Was it hard to get out of Apollyon control?” Part of the reason of why she even approached Annie was because she had gotten away from the organization. 

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revcnir‌:

“I’m standing right here. My phantoms will keep them from touching anything that will harm them. They’re quite skilled, though not as much as you.” Karina captured plenty of useful spirits. Many of them had skills that she would have never thought to pursue, which made them perfect for odd situations like this one. A young woman selling weapons and armours in an alleyway was anything but normal. “What do you mean that you don’t have access?” She wasn’t planning on telling anyone that Honor wasn’t connected at the moment, but she did want to know if something bad had happened to the younger woman. “And I’m not going to ask Vera. I don’t even know where she is right now.” Vera was her mother’s obsession. 

“Ah, I forgot. I can’t see your phantoms so I can’t make a proper examination.” If she couldn’t see them her powers didn’t analyze them. “Weaponsmiths and armorsmiths, big sis?  Your army’s grown since the invasion... You must be busy in Apollyon.” The thought of Karina collecting more meant that she had to be doing even more dirty work. She frowned and then shrugged. Thankfully, they didn’t stay on the topic for too long. “I was put on leave because I wasn’t handling the death of my friends very well. It was for healing, but I’m doing much better now. Back to the topic of shields, I can make a low grade one until I find access to better materials.” She smiled at the Olivers. “She’s in Ceres, sis. Maybe it’s time that you pay her a visit.”

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vntoinctte‌:

The younger woman had to be one of the biggest smart asses that she knew, next to Hunter and Aurelia. Without Aurelia, Honor had taken the number two spot. Annie chuckled and anxiously tapped her index finger against the hilt of her blade before she waved her arm to send her abilities forth into the room. As her aura left disintegrated marks on the walls and in the people, she got up from the floor and entered the room. 

Even though she had been laughing earlier, Annie moved through the newly dead with a neutral expression. Unfazed by the destruction, she searched for the button to the secret door. “I’d ask for your help, Critical, but we don’t want to destroy this place more than we need to…” She kept her voice low and then stopped at a bookshelf. Annie placed her hand and easily swiped her hand through the shelves. Everything she reached out to crumbled beneath her touch, until she found the lever. She pulled and a hidden doorway slid open from behind them. “Time to hunt the rest of them.”

Honor watched as Annie proceeded to do exactly the thing that neither of them wanted. “She says that she doesn’t want myself so we don’t destroy this place and then she proceeds to do exactly that.” She rolled her eyes and shook her head. “At the very least, erase everything, we don’t even want them to see the dust you left.” She snorted and then headed down the hidden entrance. 

When she got to the bottom of the steps, her eyes widened in shock. Before was a collection of Atlantean weaponry modified with Apollyon technology. “Wraith.” She called for Annie and started to take a few steps back up the stairs. From the corner of her eyes she saw a laser blast headed her way. It hit her square in the chest and the impact sent her back into the stairs behind her. “Wraith! Come down here!” She yelled and quickly scanned the room to spot another laser blast. She turned quickly and avoided it. 

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A defunct IS safe house was a perfect place to temporarily store some of her equipment. She would have normally left it in one of the bunker’s storage rooms, but her card just didn’t have the security access, not since she was listed as an inactive agent. After the losing a few rangers in the Dome incident, Honor just wasn’t the same. It took her some time to sort out her issues, but she found herself again and learned that she had a new brand of heroism. She unlatched her mask and placed it down on the counter before approached her work bench. 

The weapons master grabbed a remote and turned on the music system before she worked on sharpening a sword, trying to get it to where it needed to be again. With all the noise around her to drown out her thoughts, she almost didn’t catch the presence of her visitor, but her abilities made her skin prickle with awareness. She turned with her blade in hand. “I don’t normally take requests in my worksho- Di- I mean... Miss Elwyn, hello!” She lowered the weapon.

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revcnir‌:

“Agent Li.” Karina greeted with a wave before her youngest daughter ran passed her to look over at the spread of goods that Honor had out. Nico started to poke at things with higher than average magic readings. Her eight year old, Sawyer, coolly walked after the youngest. “I was looking for shields, something that can withstand these two and still protect them. Nico and Sawyer started a new hobby of jumping off of high things.” The last time she stopped them, they were planning on pushing each other off of the roof.  

“Big sis.” She blinked at Karina a few times to make sure that she was seeing things correctly. An Apollyon Agent and her kids were right in front of her. She knew Karina was fully capable of protecting her children, but she didn’t think that this place was the best place for two little girls. “Nico, Sawyer... Hello, please be careful. I don’t want you to accidentally hurt yourself... your mommy might get mad at me.” She reached under the table to get some wooden weapon replicas and handed it over to the kids. “I do have some shields, but if you’re looking for force shields, that may require some time. I don’t have access to Inner Sanctum technology at the moment... I think you’re better off asking Vera for that kind of equipment.”

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vntoinctte‌:

She lowered her voice, but thanks to their communicators, they’d still be able to hear each other. “I can make up for it. If I can survive there then I can do what I need to do here.” Annie took out the daggers that Honor had made for her. She was going to be dual wielding today and going to test them out together. These were supposed to keep their form even as she moved in a less than whole state. 

With the cameras down, she didn’t have to sneak about anymore so she strolled down the hall with an almost carefree gait. She focused her energy onto one of her daggers and used it to cut through a door. A large guard was on the other side. “Boo.” She managed to say before he immediately started to fire his semi-automatic weapon at her. She stumbled back from the impact of each bullet, but her abilities disintegrated them before they could puncture her skin. Annie slid down to the ground dramatically before rolling her head over to look at Honor. “Critical…” She coughed, jokingly. “Run…” A long pause. “They should run.” The Wraith turned to look over at the guard and tilted her head. This was going to be a good night. 

"Everything that you’ve just said can be summed up as one word... Reckless, and for this comment I will gladly take the moniker of Critical.” Moments like this reminded Honor of how glad she was to have met Antoinette. They bonded over their losses and found a worthwhile hobby to partake in. Luckily, Wraith and Critical worked well together. Honor summoned a pair of butterfly swords after taking note of how small the halls were. Even though Annie could overpower her easily, she didn’t want to stay out of the fight. 

Of course, however, the other woman decided to start first. She watched the theatrics and sighed while her her abilities activated. Her mind played through several possibilities and she counted the number of bullets. She saw a few of her options ending poorly, but as she moved toward the guard, she was cutting through the scenarios filled with failure. She twirled and spun, cutting with precision, speed, and accuracy. Honor used her momentum to push him off of her blades and she ducked to allow Annie the chance to charge her aura at the men in the room. 

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jvonr‌:

The Leviathan was back and she was determined to not get sent back to Hell. Even though she was an archdaemon, her luck with divine objects was considerably better than Lilith’s so, she decided to ask the infamous weaponsmith herself for something useful. “Hello. I would like your holiest spear. I don’t mind if it’s just the spearhead. Just something to keep me from not being booted off of this lovely plane of existence.” Julienne grinned at her. “It doesn’t matter if you’re armed, love. My blood would make anyone want to die.”

"I don’t sell to people like you.” Honor summoned an Atlantean blade, using the polyhedron’s technology. In her time away from the Inner Sanctum, she harnessed SHOT technology and fit it for her own use. Without having to worry about Inner Sanctum rules, she dedicated her time to things that made her happy and in that time, she found herself again. “I know what your blood can do, but I also know what Atlantean weapons can do, sea beast. I think you should be very careful with who you’re dealing with.”

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sclvris‌:

“That doesn’t mean that I don’t like a good bite.” Genny joked before smirking at her. “Eh, wolves can be tamed.” She started to laugh when she realized that the other woman was making fun of her. “Well, I like to do girls just like you.” She folded her hands together, interlocking her fingers. All she needed to do was to play it smooth. She wasn’t even sure if this was a line she could use or if it would work. “Me too. I’m great at making people feel warm and good. I can probably get you all relaxed if you let me.”

Honor didn’t think that her words would be considered flirting, but some how she managed to get the blonde to flirt back. Interesting. “So Just Genny has a type.” She tilted her head and smirked at the other woman. “I’m a bit busy, but you’ve already piqued my interest.” She pulled a card out from her pocket. It was a commonly issued IS card. Even though Honor wasn’t an active agent at the moment, she still had her cards and no one would be checking if she decided to use it for personal interactions. “Feel free to contact me. I hope to see you soon.”

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vntoinctte‌:

“Alright, Critical.” Annie was still working on what to call Honor whenever they went out to fight things together, but for now she was settled on Critical. The younger woman was a deadly force with her abilities trained to fight, and also, Honor, in her opinion, seemed to be so critical of everything. “No, not really. I just thought that it made sense in the context of things.” She started to laugh. Sometimes, the other woman was just too serious.

Annie dissolved the door before it could hit the ground and make a sound. She approached the entrance and as she did her physical form seemed to blow away in the wind. Her consciousness moved through the atomic realm and then she willed her body back into existence, right below the camera’s viewpoint. Then she signaled for the other woman to come through. 

“Making fun of me won’t make this situation any better. You’re going in blind which could put unnecessary strain on your equipment.” Honor shrugged at Annie. “On top of that, you haven’t quite recovered from your excursion into Hades’ domain. The living shouldn’t be there. You’re lucky to be alive, Wraith.” She didn’t think she’d have to remind her partner about being more careful, but she did it often, especially now whenever they enjoyed their new pass time. 

She wasn’t going to move through as easily as Annie, but she was going to disable the cameras to make it easier for them to get through. Before she was caught in the camera’s view, she used her accelerated probability to calculate the best way to throw her knives. When she was done, she hit them with deadly accuracy, destroying the cameras in the hall. “After you, Wraith. IT’s much more intimidating when you come through with your...well, your lack of a face.”

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Annie wasn’t feeling any better. She shouldn’t have gone to the Underworld with her niece and nephew. She had stitches in her leg because of the stab wound Jeremiah’s darkness gave her and her back ached with pain because of her own abilities backfiring against her. She probably shouldn’t have been on her feet, but she still had a list of names that she wanted to finish. She pulled on a dark mask and then her powers started to manifest, destroying and reconstructing the matter around her head, obscuring her face. Tonight, she was going to do something stereotypical and attack a group of mobsters in the basement of a club, but first she had to get in. Annie, now dressed in dark clothing, and phasing in and out of reality, knocked on the back door of the building. She raised her fist to knock again before noticing someone to the side of her. 

“Hello.” Annie greeted. “I’m the Wraith.” It was a name that had spread through darker circles on the whispers of worried criminals. They gave it to her and she was going to roll with it, especially since her name was cooler than her boyfriend’s in her opinion. “I’m here to collect their souls.”  She hoped that sounded intimidating enough. 

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Annie’s voice sounded terrifying with her mutant gene completely expressed. No wonder people were fearful of the Wraith. “I don’t think I need introductions, Wraith.” She spoke up and lowered her hood. She was covered with body armor that held all the weapons that they’d need for the night. She had on a full face mask, illuminated by a soft blue light. Her upper half of her face could be seen behind the the mask, but the lower half was hidden behind a respirator. “That’s an intimidating catchphrase... Is it in reference for something?”

Honor smiled even though Annie couldn’t see it. Her eyes narrowed into amused little crescents. “I’m not sure if we will be doing much collecting, considering your disruptive nature, but I think we can... as you’ve said before, catch them with their pants down.” She walked over to the door and then pressed small explosives to the hinges. “Let’s try to be more stealthy.” She smiled and breached the door. 

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She hadn’t been reinstated back into the Inner Sanctum, not exactly. When her old boss left, her file was left sitting under the category of inactive agents, so while on leave, she decided to make use of her talents. She started making armors and weapons for people she deemed worthy enough for her skills, many of those people included heroes and a few anti-heroes. Today, she had her shop set up in an alleyway between two abandoned buildings. She had a few pickups for today, so she figured that this would be a safe enough place. “Hello.” She greeted, noticing someone approaching. “What do you need?” Honor smiled. “I’m armed.”

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gucrdiano‌:

“Bruiser’s a big dog.” Parker was a tall kid, but he was sure that this dog could do some real damage to him if he wanted to. “Well, it’s like this cool game series where you hunt these monsters for the story, but you can used materials you collect from them to make super cool equipment and weapons.” He explained. Parker would play the game with his roommate at Altimira. “A disintegrator? That’s so cool! Who is she? I mean her hero name?” He blinked and then lowered his voice to whisper. “How do you know?”

“He’s a good boy though.” If it wasn’t for Bruiser she probably wouldn’t be here today. Honor still wasn’t over all that had happened since the dome, but she was better now. Maybe all she needed was the time away from the Inner Sanctum. “That sounds like a good game. Maybe you can teach me how to play it later.” She started to walk and expected him to follow. “Wraith. Her name is Wraith. That’s what the bad guys call her anyways. It’s... Badass, isn’t it?” Then she started to smile. “I have an eye for things and I can see weak points. You can control yourself well, but not well enough to look completely normal to me.” She chuckled. “

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sclvris‌:

“That’s fascinating. My brother would probably really like to hear about that. He’s sort of a space nut. I like stuff that deals with the living things underneath the sun.” Genny couldn’t get enough of the sun if she was being honest. The sunlight made her feel better on a tough day and recently, she had been developing theories about her powers. She liked to believe that she was the closest thing to a kyrptonian. “Genny, and just Genny. No need to call me by anything else.” She bowed a little out of respect. “And no, but I did almost get bitten by one once. It was not a good time.”

“Just Genny, I’m glad that you didn’t get bitten. It’d be a problem if a werewolf was running down these streets with your abilities.” Honor believed that vampires would need to worry about someone like Genny. “You don’t need to bow, I was just wondering if you would do it.” She chuckled and looked away from the other woman. “So... Just Genny, aside from wondering about laws, what else do you do in your free time?” She made herself a little more comfortable. “I like making things... Even in the modern age, I like to make weapons, if you can believe it.”

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gucrdiano‌:

“Cool! Yeah, we can do both!” Parker grinned at them and nodded excitedly. He never had a dog before, but he believed that he could be a great dog owner one day. Just not any day soon, of course. He wanted a little bit more experience with them. He reached over and patted Bruiser. “Sure, I can come with you for sword material collecting. You’re sort of doing like a monster hunter type thing. You upgrade weapons and stuff with materials you get from the hunt sometimes.”

"My old boss gave him to me as a task to raise him. When it came time to return Bruiser, I couldn’t. He’s grown on me, literally, and figuratively.” The wolf hybrid moved around them both to get more pets over his body. “I’m not aware of the reference.” She chuckled. “I just want to make something that can stabilize itself in the midst of her ability. She has a tendency to disintegrate things.” Honor explained, not worried about any SHOT agents around. She already scanned the area and saw no sign of them. “If you stay long enough, perhaps we can discuss the issues of your clothing when you use your abilities.”