Origins of a D-List Supervillain
“That gave me an idea. If he was going to be away from Biloxi, that’s where I would be. I found a bank with no jewelry stores nearby. The whole broad daylight thing still didn’t appeal to me. My plan was contingent on my force blasters being able to penetrate the vault.Unfortunately, it wouldn’t leave much charge for anything else. I’d picked up a couple of A cells, but they’d be useless in the van until I got back to them. For this job, I picked a Friday night with a big cross city high school ...football game. That would keep most of the police busy elsewhere.To further complicate things, Tracy drove me by a substation and I sent a class four pulse into one of the big transformers to kill the power for a couple of blocks. That would stretch the city’s emergency services pretty thin.By my reckoning, it might not be the perfect plan, but it was pretty damned close.The reinforced wall leading to the vault put up more of a fight than I counted on. By the time I was inside and into the metal locker where they kept the cash drawers, there was only enough juice for two full power pulses.Hoping that wouldn’t matter, I stared at the green pastures of Nirvana, and started filling the pair of duffel bags with both fists while wishing that I had made a quick disconnect for the blasters to keep them from getting in the way.MoreLess
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