Post #108010
September 11, 2017, 04:55:13 PM
Things were a blur after grabbing that kid. Or, not a blur so much as not very much of a thing at all. He knew that he got hit, there was a lot of steam, he bounced a couple more times, Suit was screaming at him. Things were a little hazy.
The next concrete thing Aztech really knew was finding himself buried under a pile of rubble (oh, hah, concrete, what a joker), hearing the annoying ALERT sound cycling back and forth. Readouts were damaged, and there was that distinctive lack of background thrumming that told him he'd been kicked into low power. Evidently there had been a lot of damage. He subvocalized to Suit to set displays to priority 1 for repairs, and was promptly rewarded with "Alert: Capacitors at 1-ALERT CANCELLED-Alert: Capacitors at 14%-ALERT CANCELLED-Alert: Capacitors at-" and so on. He acknowledged it, which closed out the cycle and promptly stopped the frustrating bleeps of the alarm every 5 seconds.
Then he slumped back into the rubble for a few minutes.
Christ. A fucking dragon.
When he emerged (turns out he'd been smacked back into that same building, the rubble was the roof above the hole he'd made collapsing onto him), there were a couple of the black ops guys on the roof being lectured by a pair whose appearance screamed 'FBI', not the least part of which was their matching jackets, which conveniently read 'FBI' on the back.
Now, his job description was 'superhero', not 'snoop', but you picked up a couple of things working with Shrike, and what he overheard gave him enough to do some simple math. Which he decided to inform them of the moment they acknowledged him.
"I'm getting a pretty strong sense here that you FBI boys never cared about the kid. What you really wanted was the location of these radicals' hideout, probably so you could bust them yourself, rescue the boy, and look great when it came time for budget reviews. Frankly, this is behavior I'd associate with the CIA in some 'third world shithole' as they'd put it, not the FBI, operating on American soil, against American citizens."