She needed to find someone that could help her. This city had metahumans. One among them could lead her to what she needed. She did not exactly enjoy having to use one that way. She knew they were mostly good people. But her mission came first. She needed to stop the evil that corrupted River City from spreading. One of them would help. She just needed to determine which of the men and women she sought was that one.
But first, she needed to make her exit. The front of the store was out of the question, at least if she wanted to remain unseen. She couldn’t alert the world to her presence, not if she hoped to keep her arrival secret. The Enemy was already here. He would be watching. Which meant, she needed to find an alternate means of escape. She looked towards the ceiling. It would have to do.
She pulled the sleeves up off her lower arms. Comfortable they were out of the way, she pointed her fingertips upward. With a deep breath, she unleashed a blast of pure energy straight into the ceiling. The energy instantly vaporized the tile and the concrete above it, all without making even the lightest sound.
Kaihime shot straight upward. Her flight systems were based on antigravity technology decades ahead of anything this era knew. She could imagine mother chiding her for their use. She would say Kaihime shouldn’t expose this world to future tech. But the nanotechnology was embedded deep within Kaihime’s cybernetic systems. If she was captured and dissected, far worse secrets existed inside her. She would simply need to stay out of the hands of those that might misuse her. Or alternately, stay alive. The tech couldn’t be removed from her while she still lived.
She flew up and over the city. She felt the pull of the massive buildings. She could see hundreds of cars moving like ants beneath her. It was like what she saw on the cable, but seeing it personally was like nothing she could imagine. Thousands of people, maybe even more. It terrified her. Growing up in The Aerie, she had almost always been on her own, with mother flitting in and out. Here she realized alone was just a concept, as other humans were always dangerously close. It terrified her.
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