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.

to say?” Felix asked, but the woman in question 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

her fiancé taking her hand into his own. “Why are you here, Felix?” Jamie asked, uneasy. Ryan could

chemicals from your division to make his drug. Just

I…” Narcinia took a deep breath. “I don’t think now is the

exactly the time,” he protested, taking a step towards his adoptive sister. Jamie rose from his own seat, perhaps to

Janus, but he

hear what was said on the other end of the line, he could guess. Mars was trying to convince his boss one last time

the intel that made the devastating Ischia raid possible, and his organization’s myth of invincibility was

survive, not even my

Hector Manada once said, Lightning Butt was a gangster with too much

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

the phone in his hand. When faced with a choice between disobeying his invincible boss and paying the price, or offering a sacrificial lamb…

click of a revolver’s

seat, and pushed Felix out of the bullet’s

impacted on the wall, Fortuna screaming in

back,” Ryan said, as he glanced at the

with another pull of the

exploded into a rain of glass shrapnels, Narcinia screaming as Ki-jung and Jamie hastily grabbed her and dived down below the table. Mortimer missed and

Roman-styled centurion armor and mask of steel to materialize over his skin. The

the—” Felix

the 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 whistled,

ordered Felix, helping him back to his feet. A storm of glass kept Mars busy on the first

night’s darkness on their left, just

terror, as a man of ivory descended from the night sky, shrouded in a cloud of crimson lightning. Lightning Butt looked down on

the spot, Ryan wisely activated his time-stop. Instead of moving

of Night Terror’s

bodysuit meshing

made him fall to his back, screaming. His illusion

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

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

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

calls me ‘Master Ryan’ when things are heating

trying to grab a revolver hidden beneath her clothes. Ryan froze time and nailed her hand to the driving wheel by throwing his other knife at

resumed, the impostor dropping her weapon and hissing at the pain. “But seeing your expression

what was happening.

Great, she could also alter vocal

stood in place, too horrified by the realization to even muster

relief, his self-driven car was making its way to their location. “Now,

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

caught, killed, or something else. Mars stood at the window’s edge with a cold expression, purple rifts in space opening all around him. The tips of swords, arrows, spears,

them at the duo below and skewered them, but he didn’t. Though it was nighttime,

his wounded wife, Mars quickly made up

time to push his kitten out of the way, as weapons fell on them by 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 them. The spears and swords flew in the air as fast as arrows, impacting the

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

keep him away from the window

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

Mortimer phased through the building’s walls, opening fire at the car with his gun,

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