The Perfect Run

Chapter 107

Ryan wondered how many lives Felix ‘Atom Cat’ Veran had left.

He had died at the Meta-Gang’s hands at least twice, once to Fallout’s bombardment of Len’s underwater base, and probably alongside everyone in New Rome when Bloodstream escaped confinement. Which should leave him with five lives out of nine?

“Felix!” Narcinia almost rose from her seat, only for Mars to put a hand on her shoulder and force her back to her seat. The young teen looked at her adoptive brother and father in confusion.

Fortuna’s response was far less subdued. “Felix, you ass!” she complained so loudly that Mathias winced at her shrilling voice. “How dare you come to a family dinner dressed like that! You look like a plumber!”

“Glad to see you too, sis,” Felix replied as he rose up, swiping ashes and dust off his clothes. His eyes wandered to the table, meeting confused looks from the guests. “Jamie, Ki-jung… Dad.”

“You could have used the door,” Mars said, his eyes tense. To Ryan’s surprise, he didn’t immediately go for his son’s throat, perhaps because of his daughters’ presence. “We invited you.”

“And I’m sure the guards outside are for show. You would never have let me close to Narcinia if I went through the entrance.” Felix turned away from his father, before noticing Mathias and Ryan. “Who are you?”

“Your sister’s boyfriend,” Mathias replied with mixed feelings. His tense eyes met Ryan’s, silently waiting for a signal. He too understood that the situation would soon degenerate.

“Which one?” Felix asked, curious.

“The right one,” Fortuna replied.

Her brother rolled his eyes, before looking at Ryan. “And… who are you, a new member of the Killer Seven?”

Ryan considered a dozen ways to introduce himself; as Quicksave, as President of the Free World, conqueror of Monaco, immortal and all. All more dignified and flowery than the last.

But only one sentence came to mind.

“I’m BLEEPING your ex.”

The awkward silence that welcomed his declaration delighted the courier.

“Don’t give me that look,” Ryan said to Felix, as the younger hero looked at him with astonished eyes. “It was your ex or your sister, and she’s almost as pretty as you are!”

“Almost?” Fortuna asked angrily. “He doesn’t even groom his hair!”

“Whatever,” Felix said, though the revelation had clearly shaken him. “Narcinia, come with me.”

“What,” the younger Veran asked, “where?”

“Away. My current bosses are a huge disappointment, but working with them will still be way better than making drugs.” Atom Kitty extended a hand to his sister. “Now that that death factory has been burnt to the ground, you can put an end to this tragedy here and now.”

Narcinia didn’t answer, instead anxiously looking at her father. This frustrated her brother. “Narci…”

“Did you do it?” Mars asked his son, his tone dangerous. “Destroy our production center?”

Felix shrugged. “I had nothing to do with that, though I wish I did. Whoever blew up that toxic dump deserves an award.”

His father frowned, and Ryan felt a chill going down his spine. A mobile phone materialized in a purple flash within Mars’ hand, the Olympian immediately making a call.

Livia’s vision was turning into reality.

avoided his gaze, much to his annoyance. “And you, Jamie? I heard about your promotion. It’s not enough to close your eyes anymore, now will you help Augustus peddle the poison that

asked, uneasy.

close them. Bacchus needs chemicals from your division to make his drug. Just by taking

a deep breath. “I don’t think now is

he protested, taking a step towards his adoptive sister. Jamie rose from his own seat, perhaps to stop

spoke on the phone with a scowl on his face. “He’s here, Janus, but he doesn’t know…

strained, and though Ryan couldn’t hear what was said on the other end of the line, he could guess. Mars was trying to convince his

had provided the Carnival with the intel that made the devastating Ischia raid possible, and his organization’s myth of

shall survive, not even

the end, as Hector Manada once said, Lightning Butt was a gangster with too much power. When threatened, the answer was

Kitten, noticing the tip of a

sorrowful. He looked at his stubborn son, the phone in his hand. When faced with a choice between disobeying his invincible boss and paying the price, or

a revolver’s

his seat, and

resumed, the projectile impacted on the wall, Fortuna screaming

as he glanced at the fireplace. Mortimer had phased halfway through the stone, a gun in hand. “It’s

another pull of the trigger, and the room erupted into

Narcinia screaming as Ki-jung and Jamie hastily grabbed her and dived down below the table. Mortimer missed and retreated back into the wall, while the

to materialize over his skin. The Olympian moved his hand over the only

the—” Felix

a princess in distress, and jumping through the opened window. The dining room was on the first floor, and so while

his feet. A storm of glass kept Mars

darkness on their left, just as lightning struck the

the night sky, shrouded in a cloud of crimson lightning.

Felix seemed to give up on the spot, Ryan wisely activated his time-stop. Instead of moving within the frozen time, Augustus vanished from

of Night Terror’s

found the responsible party standing near the mansion’s wall to the courier’s right, his black bodysuit meshing with the

screaming. His illusion collapsed into nothingness, as if it had never been

it wasn’t his Plymouth Fury, but a Mercedes Benz stopping in

them inside. “Quickly! Before

before realizing Cancel wasn’t with his girlfriend. Felix, too confused to think straight, took a step forward; the courier stopped

‘Master Ryan’ when things are heating

him blinked in shock and surprise, before trying to grab a revolver hidden beneath her clothes. Ryan

the impostor dropping her weapon and hissing at the pain. “But seeing your expression was worth

quickly guessed what

Great, she could also alter vocal cords. She attempted to remove the knife

Felix stood in place, too horrified by the

self-driven car was making its way

you were a traitor the moment I saw you,” Venus hissed.

with

he didn’t. Though it was nighttime, Ryan could have sworn he had seen a flash of doubt

wounded wife, Mars quickly made

Mars could pull and summon items from a pocket dimension armory, but he had never imagined the

initial volley, reaching his car. “Come in!” he ordered Felix as

Fortuna grabbing her father by the arm, trying to keep him away from the window and briefly halting the

summoning thick chains and binding his daughter’s hands and legs. They quickly started to fall off her, probably due to her power causing structural damage, but it paralyzed her. “Mathias, Mercury, move my daughters to safety!

the building’s walls, opening fire at the car with his

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