The Perfect Run
Chapter 34
The current loop might be the calmest yet.
Ryan had finally optimized the Augusti path. He first completed the harbor mission without incident. Fat Adam didn't send anyone for once, and Ryan had previously taken care of Luigi. The truth-teller was scheduled to get out of the hospital on Wednesday, but Ryan intended to score a few goals during the hockey match’s second period.
Afterward, Jamie invited the courier to crash at his place, and he received a 'surprise' inspection from Pluto. The Underboss’ interrogation had been less thorough this time around, since the intel Ryan provided on Psyshock had earned him some measure of trust. The courier then landed a job as Vulcan’s assistant, who had lobbied very hard to recruit him after she got her hands on his A-bomb. She didn’t even ask him to trash Wyvern’s movie this loop.
Ryan had waited patiently for today’s Rust Town raid. He had provided all the necessary information for the Augusti to improve their odds, from the Land’s range to the powers of every Psycho he fought so far. He didn’t say anything linked to the bunker like the mech, but overall, things looked bright.
Truly, Ryan was pumped for this restart.
“Plasma tor—” Ryan handed Vulcan her tool before she could finish her sentence, the Genius too busy working on her armor’s cannon. “—ch. Wrench.”
Ryan handed her a wrench and a cup of coffee.
“I didn’t ask for a cup,” she said.
“You were about to.”
Vulcan stopped in the middle of her welding, putting her tools aside and raising her iron mask. A short silence took over her workshop, as she examined the courier from head to toe. “Ryan, where have you been hiding all this time?”
“Mostly behind explosions, and sometimes forest fires.”
“I should've hired you years ago,” she said without any hint of sarcasm. “You’re the best assistant I could ever hope for; hell, you anticipate my desires as if you read my mind before I spoke. You’re perfect, except for one thing.”
Vulcan pointed a finger at the white cat having taken over her workbench. Eugène-Henry meowed in response. “Why did you bring that furball here?” she asked Ryan.
“I couldn’t leave it at the shelter. It’s a noble cat, it can’t survive in the wild.”
“No, I mean, why did you leave it in my Armory as if he lived there? Now half the guards spend their shift petting it when they think I’m not looking. It’s distracting them.”
“Ki-jung doesn’t want him at the house. I keep telling her Eugène-Henry is too good to hunt rats, but she won’t hear anything.” Ryan grabbed the cat and showed him to Vulcan. “Admit it, you can’t resist him either. Look at him. Look at his big, beautiful eyes.”
The Genius didn’t look impressed. “If he causes an accident, I’m taking the repair costs out on your pay,” Vulcan said, before grabbing the cat. She put it on her lap and moved her feet on the workbench. “I had a ferret once. He wasn’t afraid of anything.”
“What happened to him?”
“He wasn’t afraid of cars either,” Vulcan replied with a morbid face. She liked her comedy pitch black. “Speaking of animals, about that rabbit plushie—”
“No,” Ryan interrupted her.
“But—”
“No.”
“Do I have to take it at gunpoint?” she threatened, her curiosity too overwhelming.
“You would have an easier time with my virginity, but spoiler warning,” Ryan whispered in the Genius’ ear, “it’s long gone.”
Vulcan chuckled, scratching Eugène-Henry between the ears. “I thought you were dating the Underdiver?”
“Oh no, it will be a miracle if we settle into anything.” Considering her issues, a long-distance radio friendship sounded more likely. “Though it would take a Genius to steal my wounded heart.”
“I would be careful with that smart mouth of yours, Ryan,” she replied playfully, his good mood infecting her too. “What’s up with you today? Is it the raid?”
“Of course it’s the raid, I can tell it’s going to be great!”
Especially now that Psypsy had perished for good.
The Augusti leadership had tasked Ki-jung to investigate, and from what she told Ryan, most of
orphanage ambush, Ryan assumed he had perished for
to press-gang Paulie either. This implied Psyshock’s brainwashing was Big Fat Adam’s main source of unpowered foot soldiers,
was
Vulcan mused out loud. “I’ve heard what you told Jamie. That they received knockoffs from
me?” So far most of his acquaintances among
She nodded. “Lab Sixty-Six.”
“Hmm?”
HQ, next to Il Migliore’s shiny tower? They make the knockoffs on the sixty-sixth floor. It’s the
at all. Is there a pentacle
It’s not even his Genius specialty, he’s just obsessed with them; I’m pretty sure he only works at Dynamis because they let him make more of
to be a supervillain out to take over the
Migliore. He visited the lab for two hours, and he immediately asked for a transfer afterward. Never learned why. If you ask me, there’s something really shifty
quickly grasped her point. “You think Dynamis
be where the evidence isn’t. Unfortunately, I doubt we’ll find any proof of his involvement, and the big boss doesn’t seem interested in
war between them is cold instead of hot, to be honest.” Ryan thought an invincible man would
nuked it in an attempt to kill Augustus, who retaliated by sinking the island. Afterward, the big boss met
Augustus’ family or inner circle. Ryan had faced the same tactic while he lived under
is on Thursday night, right?” Vulcan asked while changing the subject, though her question was purely rhetorical. “If
old for that now.” Like the first time Ryan met him, Mortimer attempted to startle the courier from behind and utterly failed. “I would have killed
Ryan replied by turning around, pointing
candies,” Mr. Wall Pass replied, saddened
with a
there are fires coming out of Rust Town,
the Meta had set the Junkyard on
on the front seat, Fortuna, and Cancel at the back. “Oh my,” Mortimer said. “They don’t half-ass
No kidding!
set alight the trash mountains with gasoline, turning them into candles, while clouds of smoke darkened the skies. Although the
to Ryan’s vehicle, just as shocked as everyone else. Their troops had surrounded the area without meeting
What the hell happened?
Ryan, completely unconcerned
wrong?” Ryan asked back, his eyes focused on the flames. Did they
it
through the intercom. “Any sign of the
me Adam, Frank, Sarin and a few others are driving north on the old highway. Apparently, they’re skipping
disappointed. “But we only killed three
wanted those sweet
be a piece of cake,” Fortuna replied, too busy typing on
Vulcan said. “They’re
given up, but why leave the bunker behind and make a show of destroying the Junkyard? Was
The submarine.
and resupply while abandoning the surface. As long as the bunker’s existence remained a secret, the Psychos could credibly stay
door,
of desperation. Psyshock must have been more important to
to say, Quicksave?” Vulcan asked
this is an elaborate ploy and they have secretly retreated to an underground base below the city,” Ryan said.
have a base
to the moon once,” Mortimer said.
up. The current matter made him
away with it. Augustus had a reputation for brutality, and if Shroud’s story was true, then nothing good would come out of him discovering the bunker. Even if
he could always inform
immediately thought of Len. He was finally making progress in renewing their friendship, and he was afraid of falling back into his old patterns. If he continued on the
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