[Lucille Arbogast]

All it took was the sound of bombs going off in the distance to tip her and Mar off. Shortly after, static followed by a voice came through the comms.

''THIS IS AN EMERGENCY, I REPEAT, THIS IS AN EMERGENCY! ONE OR MULTIPLE VILLAINS HAVE APPEARED DOWNTOWN, WE HAVE YET TO CONFIRM THEIR NUMBERS, BUT THE PRIMARY SUSPECT IS BELIEVED TO BE BAKURETSU! REQUESTING-''

Lucille switched off her comms and looked at Mar. ''Mar Mar, we're taking a shortcut.'' She didn't need to hear anymore than that. If it really was Bakuretsu then they needed heroes on the scene immediately to minimize casualties, and they couldn't afford to gamble on it being another explosive wielding maniac. ''We're going up.'' She said to Mar, knowing that her friend and colleague knew what that meant as she transformed and wrapped her talons around Mar, before taking to the skies with a flap of her wings.

''Tiburón,'' she switched to using her hero name now that they were engaging an enemy. It was a bad habit of hers to forget to use hero names anyway. ''To what extend are you familiar with Bakuretsu?'' It was best to clear what they knew sooner rather than later. Bakuretsu was highly dangerous and while an argument could be made for whether she was the strongest villain in Tokyo, you couldn't doubt the fact that she was easily the most destructive outside of what they had witnessed the Elementalist do back in Spring.

''Once we get close I'll drop you down on the ground, but we need to fight her carefully, don't take any chances.''

Bakiri Retsu, Mar

[Mar]

"Got it." Was all Mar had to say in response, bringing her hands up to lightly hold onto Lucille's transformed ankles with each hand as they took off. It wasn't necessary and she knew Lucille wouldn't drop her, but it made her feel just a bit more secure whenever they took off like this. And it beat walking too, meant she could conserve her energy for the critical moments. She'd just have to treat Lucille later to make up for burning her energy instead.

She wasn't doing nothing at all though, focusing on trying to pick up any nearby electrical fields as they went. Lots of random ones that were probably electronics, some that were definitely civilians...

"Not much. Bomb-nut, probably blown herself up just as much as anyone else, and easy to set off. Betting pool says she's Quirkless, but probably makes all her stuff." Mar went through what limited info she had. She'd never actually fought Bakiretsu herself so all of it was just the usual second-hand knowledge that went around when it came to high profile villains like her. Taking a breath to prepare herself once it was getting close to time for drop off, Mar gave a nod even though Lucille couldn't see it. "Don't worry, I don't plan on being sashimi today... and same goes to you, got it?"

It was a brief bit of banter before a serious fight, the shark hero falling silent after that as she got ready for a whole lot of explosion-dodging and more likely than not having to run interference to protect other people from being exploded too.

Lucille Arbogast, Bakiri Retsu

[Bakiri Retsu]

Burn it all down

ForenSec.

It was a company that had only recently made its way to Japan and one that had a purely domestic workforce despite its foreign origins. At least that was the official story. In between hiring info brokers and raiding myriad facilities recently Retsu had stumbled upon a lot of dirt, trickery and legal loopholes. The truth behind this company fell within several of those categories. A corporation that was little more than the furthest end of a string of foreign companies that existed for naught but tax purposes had been used as the fake parent company for ForenSec to hide its true purpose, the security company itself being little more than a facade for their local money laundering operation.

That had been what the first source of intel she'd gotten that contained the name had said. The second revealed that it went a layer deeper, the laundering itself being a front for darker purposes. She'd only found out about it since the company's name was mentioned in the blackmail material a group she'd raided had on an asset with cannibalistic tendencies. 

Another detonation signaled the demise of one of the suspiciously well armed 'security officers'. Well, so she'd assumed. A bullet clanking off the utility pole she was just stepping past informed her of the inaccuracy. Another grenade was in motion before she even finished looking their way, the spherical device vanishing into a flat plane like it'd fallen into a pond -ripples and all- and emerging from a second to the side to blow up harmlessly in the distance. Well, harmless to her opponents, not so much to the fleeing civilians. 

Clicking her tongue she grabbed one of the larger and heavier grenade models from one of her pouches. A cluster bomb containing two dozen marble-sized explosives. She tossed it underhanded with her full force to arc it over the shield. Her opponent responded as expected, moving the whole thing to cover him from above and widening it to cover the area around him as well. Pulling her pistol from her holster she gave him a forehead piercing for his troubles before holstering the gun once more, just in time for the cluster bomb to go off and shower his now unguarded comrades. 

That took care of their first strike team, now she'd have to deal with the rest that had dug in with the time these had bought. With some luck she'd be done before there was a response from the authoriti-

Hmm? Squinting her eye she looked up, not sure what she saw. Was that a bird? A plane?

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