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Part 11 — Conversations

  [Saturday Night of 20XX] [Sometime in March]

  [Goggle Talk App] [Lounge] [The Skylark/The Harrier]

  [The Docks] [Holdport] [Somerset] [The UK]

  [3rd Person]

  [Goggle Talk] [Family Thread]

  People in Convo: [Ebenezer ‘Ben’ McCabe] [Kara McCabe] [Katie McCabe] [Kaylee McCabe]

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  ? Katie McCabe: So, I’d like to inform every McCabe in our family who is in Holdport, of a group of vampires trying to free Calpurnius Blood from his prison. Which may, or may not, involve using one of us as a blood sacrifice in a ritual to open his prison.

  ? Kara McCabe: Shit.

  ? Kaylee McCabe: Ditto, Eldest, Ditto.

  ? Kara McCabe: Little One, Xiǎo Mèimei, do not call me Eldest.

  ? Ebenezer ‘Ben’ McCabe: Girls, don’t fight now, please. We’re currently in a situation to end all situations and I’d prefer this to go with all of us working together in this situation.

  Kate, I assume you want me to look through the library and imprints I have? The Family Archive I reclaimed for us? Due to me currently being The Guardian of The Archive?

  ? Katie McCabe: Please and Thank You, Dad. It would be most appreciated and whatever we can find on Mr Blood and his made-up name would be nice. For starters to see if we actually could find out what his actual original name was.

  But this is a warning for you all in case the vamps come knocking on any of your doors. Be prepared and be safe. Also, yes this does relate to Tara having gone missing and me then finding her. I would say more, it is her story to tell.

  Her claim of having just been asleep on someone’s sofa was for The Sake of The Deception. And it’s not like how I was freaking out with everyone else? I couldn’t claim she had been on my Sofa she was on during this whole situation.

  ? Ebenezer ‘Ben’ McCabe: Kate, why do I have a feeling this has to do with the Powered Heroics you’ve been doing as a suit? Of how you’ve been calling yourself Red Hen? Because this makes me think it is. And I’d prefer you to be safe. I *want* you safe, my daughter ... but then I’m not going to be able to convince you to make a different choice.

  ? Katie McCabe: Sorry, Dad. But I have a duty to do, a job of mine to perform, a purpose which must be met. Holdport needs me, and who am I to leave it unanswered.

  ? Kaylee McCabe: Yes, Miss I am the night. Yes, Miss A tyrant of the shade. Yes, Miss I am the spite. Yes, Miss I am the pain repaid. Yes, Miss I am the night. Yes, Miss A fear that lies in shadows cannot fade. Yes, Miss Crush the light. Yes, Miss I am the night.

  Go and be your overly dramatic self. Maybe pose on a gargoyle, or rock out to Miracle of Sounds excellent songs.

  ? Katie McCabe: Firstly, I am not Batman. Nor am I Batwoman. Or any member of The Bat Clan. And so on and so forth. I earned the money I use and used for making this work. There was no silver spoon in my mouth when I was born.

  Secondly, don’t rip off Miracle of Sound and his song of what is Batman: Arkham Song: I Am the Night. Yes, it is a great song. Yes, it is something which should be celebrated. But? Please don’t just steal it in such a manner, Little Sis.

  Thirdly, With Chirp owned by The Cloakwinn Group. With 60% owned by me, 10% by Brian Winn, 10% by Dad, 10% by Kara, and 10% by you? You know, with how I convinced Winn to go in ten percent with it, while I went in with 90% of it, then gave 10% each to you, Dad, and Kara?

  I think I should have a bit more gratitude, even before getting into the fact it prevented What’s-His-Name of this Timeline from buying it. It would have still been a complete shitshow if Darach Spurling bought it, and you know it. Not considering the fact I thought someone else was going to buy it from my past life memories.

  But it’s like how Auntie Jo probably wouldn’t have been hit with a ban hammer for her hate speech and calling for the extermination of all The Powered. With her calling them ungodly and unholy and her claiming they are an abomination.

  With her lumping in all the Supernaturals running with the Powered too, plus with her being wrong about the vast majority of all those supernaturals being demons or such. I would prefer, and I think you prefer, to not have Ingsoc take over Chirp. Or the damned group of The Reclamation Party of what is Neil Sawyer’s political bastard child of a political party. And what the various fellow ultra-right wing groups of other countries and such are saying.

  None of us would want such a thing to happen. So, I’d expect a little bit of gratitude from you and you *not* calling me Batman. Before we get into said 10% part of it for you being your Christmas present a few years back. Therefore do *not* insult me and call me Batman. Do not spit on our sisterly bond, and I would be overjoyed at it.

  ? Kara McCabe: Xiǎo Mèimei, for gorram sake! Don't be a bun tyen-shung duh ee-dway-ro, please! Do not provoke Katie! Do not poke her in the way you’ve been told not to! Ching-wah tsao duh liou mahng, do not try me, young lady!

  ? Katie McCabe: Kara, want to do a Firefly rewatch at some point? The fact we had seven series in this timeline and *then* The Film of Serenity? It is one of the nice pros of being in this Universe of Sierra-Hotel-1 compared to my last life. So, Illyria, would you be up for such a rewatch?

  ? Kara McCabe: I’m up for it, and I won’t poke you Meimei, like our Littlest Sister.

  ? Kaylee McCabe: Hey! I’m 5 feet tall. I’m 152.4 cm tall! I’m 2 inches taller than Kate! I have a whole 5.08 cm on her! And you’re only 2 inches taller than me too with your 5 foot 2 tall height of 157.48 cm! Katie is our Littlest Sister! Stop calling me little when I’m taller than her!

  ? Kara McCabe: We weren’t talking about height, but age, little one. And to be frank, we’re all short, little-Miss-Napoleon-Complex.

  ? Katie McCabe: I’d just like to note Napoleon wasn’t short, he was average for his time in the 18th century and early 19th century. The French Inch and such, it was bigger than the Imperial Inch and such. So, she doesn’t have a Napoleon Complex because Napoleon was around 167 cm tall, or just under 5 foot 6. He was taller than everyone in this chat.

  So don’t call it a Napoleon Complex, please, Kara. It’s inaccurate.

  ? Kaylee McCabe: [History Nerd Powers ACTIVATE!]

  ? Ebenezer ‘Ben’ McCabe: Girls, please. Play nice now, or I’ll take away your toys and put them back in the toy box.

  ? Katie McCabe: [Rolls Eyes.] Yes, Father. Yes, indeed. Please do treat Kara like she’s twenty nine months old, me as twenty seven months old, and Kaylee as if she’s twenty five months old. It's not like our age is measured in years and not months. [Sarcasm] We just *adore* being talked down like this by you. Please *do* go on. [/Sarcasm]

  ? Ebenezer ‘Ben’ McCabe: Don’t you roll your eyes at me, young lady! And please don’t be sarcastic. I would prefer to do this without sarcasm! It’s just when you act like children then I’m going to treat you like children!

  ? Kara McCabe: Dad, sarcasm along with puns are the highest form of wit. So, leave Katie and her snarky snarkiness alone

  ? Katie McCabe: I came to warn everyone about the Vamps, I’ve done so. Therefore? Call me, beep me, if you wanna reach me.

  [Saturday Night of 20XX] [Sometime in March]

  [Goggle Talk App] [Lounge] [The Skylark/The Harrier]

  [The Docks] [Holdport] [Somerset] [The UK]

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  [3rd Person]

  [Goggle Talk] [Kaylee and Katie Talk thread]

  People in Convo: [Katie McCabe] [Kaylee McCabe]

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  ? Kaylee McCabe: You would be the one to ask about Red Hen, sister of mine.

  ? Katie McCabe: Well, I did have to. And says the person who wants to be a Hero too. I mean, you’re planning to call yourself Puddle as your hero name when Dad, Kara, and I agree on you being ready to go out and be a hero.

  ? Kaylee McCabe: I practise Duck’s Dance due to having a Duck Animal Form! I’m a Duck Shifter with my Duck Form! With my Vi I can manipulate and control water as well as a trained and self-made Talent of a Tal, I’m a telehydretic! Puddle is a perfectly acceptable name for me!

  ? Katie McCabe: Of course, Jemima Puddle-Duck. Which I’d think you’d remember how said story goes before going all into being a Duck. You know instead of say practising Hen’s Ascent, Chicken’s Beak, or Poultry’s Punch.

  You could have worked on them, instead of going for the basics of Sword’s Punch and Lithe Longsword, getting into a bit of Chicken’s Beak. Before you went all out with The Duck Meditations and went into The Dancing Duck Form.

  ? Kaylee McCabe: Screw you, Kate! I wanted to properly fly, I mean you’re working on your New Caledonian Crow form to then be able to branch into its form! And it’s fighting style!

  ? Katie McCabe: Like you completely focusing on your Fighting Form, and not in the other bits of Witchcraft? Like Pyrophagy, Forsphagy, Luxphagy, or Motusphagy? Or not working on Astrapophagy like I am, or working on your ability to draw on The Ambient?

  ? Kaylee McCabe: Says the person who went out before they thought they were ready themself. Where’s those Four Magic Rings per hand you wanted when working out the Energy Balance and Numerology to have more than one magic ring per hand? Of a pair of the same magic rings?

  Of what you wanted to have the Computer Ring of an Elsie Module, a Scanning Ring of a Dedicated Scanner, and your Illusion Ring of a Light and Sound Illusion of a Miragus Spell? You know, from your inspiration of reading DC Lantern Fics, to emulate the Computer and Scanning of a Power Ring?

  For what you’ve mentioned planning to plug the illusion ring into the Computer and Scanning Ring to make Ritual Constructs out of light. To use it to make Trope Treasury Instant Runes, as well as to allow you to make a Light-Cage to contain and trap people. Plus, with throwing around Ritual Magic in Combat without having to have pre prepared potions or pre prepared the ground you’re fighting on.

  And what you wanted to do to make your own Suit of Powered Armour of a Shell, of not only building your own Panoply Suit but to make an improved version. Which you haven’t even begun to build such a Shell of a Suit.

  ? Katie McCabe: Dad and Kara okayed me going out and Kara in her Older Sisterness, it was myself being my perfectionist self which wanted to be perfect. I mean, if Dad and Kara okayed you for going out as a hero, and I don’t? Then I’m outvoted.

  And I believe a certain little sister was telling me I was properly ready to go out and stop faffing around like you said a few weeks ago.

  ? Kaylee McCabe: [Sigh.] Yes. I *did* say so. But you’re the person who wanted to figure out how to get your Firework Bracer Working so you can go, “TANK MISSILE!” because you want to more than just make a meme. You’re the one who wanted it to be able to back you up.

  Or you’d go with the other meme of, “SHELL MISSILE!” of what, you’ll go on about only being in a meme in this life. Of what is your second life, instead of just the Tank Missile Meme of your first life you’d quote first due to said longer experience of being a thing. You wanted and were insistent on either of those Firework Bracers going with 6 fireworks made per second. For what would be up to 12 per second from both bracers.

  Or you wanted the 70 metres per second Boots to let you run at 156.58554 mph/252 km/h, the 150 mph/67.056 metres per second/241.4016 km/h backpack flight pack. And the Telekinetic Gloves you designed to enhance your telekinetic strength by a factor of a hundred.

  Of both telekinetic gloves and telekinetic hands to grant what would be a combined strength of 500 kg/half a tonne (Metric ton), or 250 kg/quarter of a tonne for either telekinetic hand. What at least on what would be the enhancement at your current telekinetic strength.

  How you wanted a pair of Telekinetic accelerator guns made of Electromettle, with Electromettle bullets of the electrical fabbing and creation of bullets. To have 6 each per second, so 12 together per second or 720 per minute, 250 metres Per second/559.234 mph, for 4 seconds to make a range of 1 km, homing on target within range.

  You also wanted to make what would be your Wands of Fire, Ice, Lightning, Stunning, Healing, Telekinesis. With said telekinetic wands to be up to 1000 kg of weight at up to 350 metres per second/782.928 mph. Telekinetic Wands you want to turn into batons of a club with their own enchantments if you go into hand to hand.

  Yes, you have the armour of your supersuit and the shields on it, yes you have your Rings of Gyges, yes you have your pair of Pulse Pens. And then, yes you have your scanners and such of your kit. There is none of what is the basic kit you wanted to have.

  Like you wanting to get your set of rings from a numerological balance to go from one ring per hand, to then three rings, followed by four per hand. And then get to ten per hand for: a Pair of Rings of Fire, a Pair of Rings of Ice, a Pair of Rings of Lightning, a Pair of Rings of Elan Vital, a Pair of Rings of Luck Generation and Manipulation, and a Pair of Rings of Telekinesis. Telekinetic rings which would be up to 1000 kg of weight each to make 2,000 kg at up to 350 metres per second/782.928 mph.

  And you wanted to make those Artificially Created Spirits you wanted to make with your own method of Shamanism. Of Candle Flames, LED Candle Lights, and Shockers of Battery Powered Electrical Systems, to make your own little spirits anchored to you to call on if you need them.

  Where is all of what you wanted, sister of mine?

  ? Katie McCabe: [Sigh] Someone woke up and chose to be a bitch today. The bitch level is enough to kill small birds and mammals. Why exactly, Kaylee?

  ? Kaylee McCabe: Because I want to be a hero like you too! And I’m not going to stand there by the sidelines!

  ? Katie McCabe: Then prove to two out of the three people: me, dad, and Kara of how you can do it safely. If not proving to all three of how you’re capable of being the hero of Puddle without getting yourself in trouble.

  [Saturday Night of 20XX] [Sometime in March]

  [Goggle Talk App] [Lounge] [The Skylark/The Harrier]

  [The Docks] [Holdport] [Somerset] [The UK]

  [3rd Person]

  [Goggle Talk] [Kara and Katie Talkie]

  People in Convo: [Kara McCabe] [Katie McCabe]

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  ? Katie McCabe: How goes the day, Soldier? How goes the day, Orbital Paratrooper? How goes the day, Espatier?

  ? Kara McCabe: Heh, the rule of three. But I’m okay. What about you, ‘Mina in The Middle?

  ? Katie McCabe: I thought we agreed it was fully to be Malcolmina in The Middle? And I’m fine. Or at least I’m coping with the whole heroing state and in a state which could be called fine.

  ? Kara McCabe: Well, stay fine. Now don’t let the vampires bite!

  ? Katie McCabe: [Sarcasm] Ha-Ha, very funny. Hilarious, Kara-Ka. [/Sarcasm]

  ? Kara McCabe: I do try, dear sister.

  ? Katie McCabe: Two things, one: Try harder. Two: Do or do not, there is no try.

  ? Kara McCabe: [Sarcasm] Ha-Ha, very funny. Hilarious, Kate. [/Sarcasm]

  ? Katie McCabe: Are we still on for the Firefly marathon at some point?

  ? Kara McCabe: [Stargate] Yeah, sure, you betcha. [/Stargate]

  [Saturday Night of 20XX] [Sometime in March]

  [Goggle Talk App] [Lounge] [The Skylark/The Harrier]

  [The Docks] [Holdport] [Somerset]

  [3rd Person]

  [Goggle Talk] [Dad and Katie]

  People in Convo: [Ebenezer ‘Ben’ McCabe] [Katie McCabe]

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  ? Katie McCabe: Hey, Dad.

  ? Ebenezer ‘Ben’ McCabe: You can do this, Kate.

  ? Katie McCabe: You’re just saying that, Father of Mine.

  ? Ebenezer ‘Ben’ McCabe: I’m not. For starters I wouldn’t have greenlighted you to go out heroing weeks ago if I was.

  ? Katie McCabe: You say so, I see and hear you say so. My brain gets it, my heart however doesn’t. “It was an average Tuesday, there was a shooting star, then everything went fucking nuts,” is what slightly modified song lyrics pop into my head at this.

  ... And? What if I can’t do this? What if I’m not strong enough, Dad?

  ? Ebenezer ‘Ben’ McCabe: You are strong enough, even if you don’t think you are. I believe in you, and so do your sisters in both their own ways.

  ? Katie McCabe: Superman Marathon of the Superman trilogy at some point when we can organise it?

  ? Ebenezer ‘Ben’ McCabe: As you would say? [Nods]

  And in further words, just to check: You mean Superman the Movie, Superman II, and Superman Returns? And *nothing* else.

  ? Katie McCabe: It’s not like I’m going to suggest we watch Man of Steel, Dad. And I know you’re still too burnt from Man of Steel to try and canary Superman Legacy, no matter what anyone might say to you about it.

  Like you’re quite willing to accept how I nope out of Rise of Skywalker just when I see the Opening Scrawl and just can’t watch it.

  ? Ebenezer ‘Ben’ McCabe: Good Girl. Or to quote Jurassic Park, “Clever Girl.”

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