Chapter 66:

The Plan to Humiliate Coaster Bozo Beyond All Recovery

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Hatter slid a paper from his hand across the ground, throwing it like a frisbee until it skidded up to the sister’s feet.

The villains all crowded around it, peering over each other to get a good look at the cheaply-printed promotional material.



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“Puh-hur-fect.Spider Hood grinned menacingly.

“What are we going to do to him?” Kyrie immediately asked, ready and willing to follow along with whatever they would.

“He’ll want to show off his flying prowess, no? We’ll flick him out of the sky and let everyone watch him fall on his face.”

“Oooh!” Anita giggled. “And how do you plan on doing that?”

“These new powers of his are nothing more than filthy bourgeois trickery, recently installed. Spider will construct an EMP.”

“Oh, shit, I will?”

“Once he’s just high enough to make a fool of himself, all we have to do is press a button. Bam. Instant disgrace, the likes of which not even he’s seen before. And on his big day, no less. It’s a flawless plan. I can hear the howling laughter of the entire internet already.”

“We’re not gonna… hurt him, are we?” Katie spoke up.

“No, absolutely not.” Arsene declared unquestionably. “He killed Missile Man, remember? I refuse to step to his level.”

“So… that’s the plan, then.” Frankie forced herself to speak up before the moment was lost. “As, um… new members…” Frankie looked around at the many silent faces of her new team. “How much will we be paid? You said you had a sponsor?”

Hatter beamed at Kyrie. She stood at attention.

“Yes, recruit. I, Kyrie… former heiress of the Black family, will see to it that you receive pay in accordance to your performance and participation in the mission. Work hard… and you could be given tens of thousands just for today.”

“Heiress, huh…”

“Thank you, everyone.” Arsene bowed to his legion. “To work, then. I will be preparing myself if you are in need of me.”

In seconds, everyone else was back at their projects, assembling what they needed for the next operation. Kyrie stood with the girls.

“We haven’t found your skills or responsibilities yet. Just come with me.”

Nodding, the sisters agreed followed her, and they quickly wound up at Spider Hood’s work area.

“Oh hey!” He exclaimed, looking up from his sprawling canvas of circuitry. “This thing’s almost done… can’t wait to get out there.”

“Wait, already?” Frankie stammered.

“Yeah.” He sighed. “I’ve done this before, s’boring. Only way to mess with rich people though.”

“You certainly find other ways to mess with me.” Kyrie teased.

“You’re rich, but you don’t got freakin’ Rube Goldberg machines under your skin.”

“You don’t have any trickery, Kyrie?” Katie casually asked.

“Don’t want it. I find it quite appalling how the gap between income levels has driven itself so deep that it now reaches our very biology.”

“Well… sure, but wouldn’t it be cool to shoot laser beams or something?”

Kyrie have the girl a quiet chuckle.

“Most of the rich don’t use trickery for fun like that. If they did have lasers, they’d be for insurance. That’s how most of them see it. New ways for them to get a leg up on the poor. Greater strength, better health… trickery can impede even on our very mortality, that which used to unify us regardless of our place in society.”

“It can do that?”

“Well, of course it can. Don’t you think it’s obvious how even after all these years, K-“

“Done!” Spider Hood shouted, making Frankie jump. “Phew, that was boring. Record time though. Now I get to go cause some chaos.”

Kyrie smiled.

“It’s so cool how far technology has come…” Katie mused romantically. Kyrie just scoffed.

“I guess it might seem like that sometimes, yeah… but relatively speaking, we shouldn’t still be here. Besides trickery, I mean… even hundreds of years ago, we were at roughly the same level of advancement we are right now. As it stands, we find ourselves living in a perpetual technological dark age.”

The clacking of heels could be heard as Anita ran up to join the four of them, folded material resting in her hands.

“Hey! I made the newbies some swag! Check it out!”

She handed the sisters two striking black-and-red outfits: for Katie, a devilish dress with tactical pouches and sleek designs. For Frankie, an imposingly stylish jumpsuit sporting a few Villainous Legion patches. Both came packaged with standard identity-protecting masks.

“So? Do you like them? Or do you love them?”

“We love them!” Katie spoke for the both of them. “I could go inciting mischief any day in an outfit like this.”

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