The Hot Shot Journal #5

Huff puff Huff puff....... Muff....... Huff puff Huff puff....... fugg.......Huff puff Huff puff.......ing.....Huff puff Huff puff......Cypher......I gotta stop for a minute. All this gear heavy.
 
Remember to breath j.
 
Damn him for just dropping me off so far away from this address Joanna and Jason want to meet me at. This team stuff is tough! Need to find someone who is more my speed over there? At least Dragon Lady is there! I'm not the only lonely girl? I guess?
 
Joanna got spooked after we signed onto the resistance. Wants us to look into this apartment complex referred to us by Socrates AKA Ringo 2001. Apparently, this block is die hard anti-Destroyer. All the landlord's lost alot of money during the vanishing. I guess all of have lost? Or is it experienced loss? HM?
 
Joanna is the most paranoid person I know. I kid her about it all the time. But w/o her I wouldn't have made it this far? She has some uncanny knack for knowing when not to go into the street. And waiting and watching and letting things play out while keeping a safe distance. Was shocked when I got caught in that AAA warehouse battle. Guess our luck had to run out?
 
Turning a corner, thinking I would be a quarter block away I find. Destroyer agents. Lots of them. Not here! Not by the hair on my little red cape. This has gotten out of hand. How did that old song get into my head? Don't know. Don't care. I have to get them to fight me. Let Joanna and Jason have a chance to get out of the building and to the escape route.
 
Yes, I see you Overarmor guy kinda creeping up from my right. What do you want? Me too panic. I don't do that. Not my style! Deal with you when you're all up on me. What if for just once he help's me out? I mean this block has to have some sort of mildly powered super right? Even if he just Gung Fu's them, not me, it'll be a help. Not everyone's Dragon Lady?
 
Shooting starts. Overlay does his thing to The Hot Shot.
 
Hey what's this? Blinking. Little red targets zooming in on the goons? Okay. Now this. This, I could get used to! And no, running behind that car will not help you this time speedy. Oh man. Shot him in the face! The look he had when he was hit. Oh man. It's too much for me take. But...I have too! My people. Alot of people are depending on me. And yeah yeah. I can hear 'em now. Shut up and shoot it's all you're good for. Can't even fly to save a life.
 
I shouldn't but it's like those old Tee Vee commercials I would have to sit through with Jason and his friends. Which seem like a lifetime ago now that the world is out of control. Bounce off this. Directly through that. Nothing but a hot shot.
 
Then like that Overarmor guy tells me to shoot the three stooges he put into a wall. Huh? Oh? He means it. Okay. I comply and it's over. Damn he doesn't mess around? Other then with whatever he's done to my vision.
 
Armory calls. Reports, I hear shooting!
 
I tell her, I'm down here, it's time for you two to use the escape route. Go now.
 
Armory responds, Okay We'll catch up with you at rendezvous point Charlie in 30 minutes.
 
Acknowledged. Charlie in thirty.
 
Now onto what to do about these last few agents? Overarmor guy seems intent on that pile of poop he had me shoot. Hey that rhymes? I'll scream at the other agents to drop their weapons. No one else needs to become a mess on the corner over there.
 
Drop your weapons NOW!
 
They comply? So good!
 
Now run for your lives. I scream and point The Heater at them.
 
Yep off they went. Goodbye!
 
Searching for my disguise I spy on another one of those wierdo vans. Great I'm going to have to tell Cypher. You know that moment? When you're on top of the world. Then something happens. Next thing you know. You're thinking about Cypher. That's my feels now. I grab an ID from the passed out driver. Which I guess we are learning they are in cyber space now? All this is over my pay grade. I just shoot things. And I have places to be.
 
Over comes Overarmor guy.
 
We fist bump and he tells me he is Overlay. I tell him Hi I'm The Hot Shot. I ask him "You wanna join the resistance?" And with that I hand him the comm I got from Socrates and we agree to meet up later that day. Because I have to meet with Joanna and Jason in a half hour!
 
I gotta run.
 
Remember to breath j.