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.

“And you, Jamie? I heard about your promotion. It’s not enough to close your

asked, uneasy.

to close them. Bacchus needs chemicals from your division to make his drug. Just by taking that job, you’re

don’t think now

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

his face. “He’s here, Janus, but he doesn’t know… he swears he’s not involved… yes, but… please, not before my daughters… some other

of the line, he could guess. Mars was trying to convince his boss one last time not to execute his godson, or to at least make

Felix had provided the Carnival with the intel that made the devastating Ischia raid possible, and his organization’s myth of invincibility was in jeopardy. A brutal, public murder would carry a clear message to both his foes and

traitor shall survive, not even

with too much power. When threatened, the answer was always more violence and

time-traveler looked at the fireplace behind Atom Kitten, noticing the tip of a gun’s barrel sticking out of the

hand. When faced with a choice

a revolver’s trigger echoed in the

and

resumed, the projectile impacted on the wall, Fortuna

said, as he glanced at the fireplace. Mortimer had phased halfway through the

pull of the trigger, and the

screaming as Ki-jung and Jamie hastily grabbed her and dived down below the table. Mortimer

over his skin. The Olympian moved his hand over the only part of his body exposed, the eyes, and rose from his

the—” Felix said,

chest like a princess in distress, and jumping through the opened window. The dining room was on the first floor, and so while the time traveler gracefully landed on the grass below, his favorite cat rolled on the ground. The courier

feet. A storm of glass kept Mars busy on the first floor, but

headlamps emerged from the night’s darkness on

in a cloud of crimson

his time-stop. Instead of moving within the frozen time, Augustus vanished from his sight,

Night Terror’s

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

Night Terrorized in the eye and made him fall to his back, screaming. His illusion collapsed into nothingness, as

me if you want to live,” Ryan said as the car approached. But to his surprise, it wasn’t his Plymouth Fury, but a Mercedes Benz stopping in front of the duo. The right door opened, revealing

said, inviting them inside. “Quickly! Before the others

face and voice, even the clothes… before realizing Cancel wasn’t with his girlfriend. Felix, too confused to think straight, took a step forward;

Ryan’ when things are heating up,” the courier

surprise, before trying to grab a revolver hidden beneath her clothes. Ryan froze time and nailed her hand to the driving wheel by

the impostor dropping her weapon and hissing at the

what was

Livia’s voice turned into Venus’, as the Augusti regained her true form. Great, she could

kill me?” Felix stood in place, too horrified

to his relief, his self-driven car was making its way to their location. “Now, apologies, but we’ll miss

traitor the moment I saw you,” Venus hissed. “There’s nowhere

Mars stood at the window’s edge with a cold

have launched them at the duo below and skewered them, but he didn’t. Though it was nighttime, Ryan could have sworn he had seen

when he noticed his wounded wife, Mars

the dozen. From what the courier understood, Mars could pull and summon items from a pocket dimension armory, but he had never imagined the speed at which he could throw

he ordered Felix as he swiftly took over

trying to keep him away from the

of us,” Mars replied, before 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

building’s walls, opening fire at the car with his gun, but his bullets only grazed the bodywork. While the Plymouth Fury escaped the property, Mars leaped outside the window,

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