<strong>Darclight</strong><br/><br/>"There is," Auxilia acknowledged, "I didn't want to say anything before I was sure, but... okay yeah. So the bad news is your old Malta Headquarters has been taken over by a vampire countess. Vampire Lord? Lady? Sultana? Whatever, I don't know the rankings. Anyway the point is it's apparently a vampire lair now. The good news is Kanina and Tabs are heading there because that same vampire is hunting down Kanina to try and marry her, and Kanina wants to show up and say no."<br/><br/><strong>Kanina, Tabs</strong><br/><br/>"Ooh, she's pretty. Oh, those are fangs. SO, we're looking at a vampire countess here, so maybe she was thinking of hypnotizing you into her harem? For me, again, malware, so hypnosis and marriage aren't going to work, and I don't have blood. I'm explaining this to her, she seems pretty okay with it. Did I mention she captured one of my drones? That was about five minutes ago. You're looking at bats, traps, pumpkins and skeletons, the whole nine yards. On the one hand she probably doesn't like giant fuckoff laserstars flying around, on the other hand I'm not sure how much help she'd be against it?"<br/><br/><strong>Ace</strong><br/><br/>"I suppose the main point of contention is that I don't think what Zohar is doing is even a bad thing," the Silver Spider said, shrugging, disappointed. This earned an indignant snort from Onyx, "aside from the fact that what it's done has been setting free my friends (and some enemies too, we'll be fair), most of the people I know think it's one of your own heroes. Goodness, I even heard that Rose beat it because it flipped out when it seriously hurt the rookie prison guard at her holding site. You hold back a lot because you worry about collateral damage, right? Any number of yours could have had that kind of power and kept it a secret. Even with a spooky line like 'the world is not yet ready.'" She leaned in and stage-whispered, "personally, I think it's one of yours that had a lover on the other side, so when his girlfriend went to prison, he blew up and decided he had to set everybody free so nobody would know she was the reason. But maybe that's just wishful thinking? And maybe I'm overestimating your power to live a triple life, to go on adventures with me and also stay Ace in public and then whatever you do when you're not wearing that mask." At this last, the Silver Spider ran her hands up Ace's face to outline her mask with her fingers, cracking a little smile and pinching her cheek affectionately.<br/><br/>A knock sounded against the side of the trailer. The guard from before called inside, "Ace, there's trouble!"<br/><br/>"Oh yes!" Silvia nearly cheered, "it sounds like my ride is here. Neither of you for running away together?"<br/><br/>"Sil, I'll elope with you any time you want, but if they try and draft me into their war machine I'm gonna headbutt them into the moon," Onyx growled.<br/><br/>"Fair enough, fair enough."