Chapter Twenty Six Hollywood makes it look like every week’s a new supervillain battle, every day you step out for a Starbuck’s something will happen. So not true; most superhero work is patrol and rescue, and nothing you don’t expect ever happens on your days off. But when you spend most of your time out in the thunderstorms, lightning is more likely to find you. The Astra Interviews I swept Yoshi behind me as the gunman hosed our table. Bullets chunked into bodies around us, and Chakra and Artemis went down. The screams spread outward, but I was over the table as spent cartridges chimed on the dance floor. The world shrank to the skull-masked gunman, time dilating and not in a good way; there were at least a good dozen real capes in the club tonight, and I had to get to him first. I caught a hand and squeezed the fingers around the grip and trigger as he shrieked, but he kept shooting past me as I flailed for the other.
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