My Super Secret Life…Villain-13.

Chapter 13

This isn’t like the parts we passed through The Fringes, no this is Freaktown this is packed, really packed and my god.

If the humans above had any real idea, there’d likely be so much a panic it’d lead to war. I hear such a mix of languages here too.

And I spot members of the big three alien races down here too which isn’t surprising as they have made it clear they’re watching this whole thing unfold. More to think about really.

We’re heading into one of these tower buildings one of the largest within eyesight and its castle like a big square keep and there’s another square and another until just about ten feet from the ceiling. But the place is built from black spray painted riveted metal and has something familiar to it…box cars; it’s made out of box cars.

“This is?” I’m looking it over.

Shepherd walks beside me. “Welcome to Grand Central Station, home of The Underground Railroad.”

I head inside with him but I notice there’s eyes here and there intently on all of us.
Looks like I’ve a long steep climb up the learning curve here.

Shepherd waves at a few people quite noticeably and there’s some nods but some others are looking at us questioningly.

Then he’s talking at them in some language that I’ve never heard before and there’s nods and some waves to him likely more than us.

I look at Link. “So what the heck is that all about?”

“He’s just saying that we’re okay and that you brought the goods with us.”

“Oh alright but what was he speaking?”

“N’yai.”

N’yai are very close to humans almost to the point of being like this galactic human sort of hybrid. Humans and N’yai can mate and bear children and they’re the really big deal race but not at the same time. N’yai are like traders, gypsies with no planet and no homes other than the drift colonies that the live in and their ships.

They’re a big deal because one they are the first race humanity met when we really took our first steps into the galaxy and they took us under their wings so to speak and were very good to humanity while we were out here…still are but they’re know to be good to almost anyone.

Two…they’re everywhere…all over the galaxy as far as we know.

“Oh, so is that hard to learn?”

“You’ll pick it up it’s sort of the common down here.”

“I’ll have to then.”

She’s nodding and she’s smiling as we follow Shepherd and there are other people coming to meet us from a couple of different landings some are in leftover military surplus clothes and some are dressed pretty street and a couple are in robes and one of them is staring at me and there’s this odd tickle that they’re there sort of like how I feel things out with my TK powers but different.

I feel this nudge feeling in my…hold out a hand and roll a marble out of my sleeve at her. “Trying to get into my head isn’t polite.”

She says something in N’yai.

I hover my marble and people are looking tense and there’s some weapons being readied mostly at me.

“Link…you’d better start translating.”

Shepherd snarls and snaps at the woman who’s staring me down and says something to her then says out loud. “It was fucking rude; Serina speaks perfectly good English Rook.”

“Oh well then since you said something I don’t need to get into her head using my powers.”

She’s looking at me and does this nose in the air thing and she floats off like she’s on a hover board and she might be under the robes I’m not impressed.

“Why the fuck did that just happen?”

I’m pissed and have a good mind to get more pissed. I shoot some nasty looks at the ones still “guarding me.” Yeah you want to do that boys.

Shepherd looks at me. “Serina is part of The Guard she was trying to scan you for intent but she’s not supposed to do that without asking first.”

Link snorts. “She’s a Luminari she thinks her shit doesn’t stink.”

“What the hell is a Luminari?”

She’s looking at where she went. “Old mutant house with very strong bloodlines and psi powers they’re one of the founding houses…families that set up Freaktown back in the old days.”

“Oh…spoiled rich cunt.” I really, really don’t like her.

Huh…that didn’t feel so bad saying, well for one she sure seems like one and for two if you have one of your own it sure makes a difference.

There’s some looks from me saying it but I stand my ground with them until this green guy looks at me.

I mean it green, with green hair and light green skin and he’s in a green hoody that’s too big for him since he’s kind of small and he’s got vines little ones growing out from his hair. “I apologize for Serina she was trying to push your buttons, there are those of the old lines that are insecure when someone comes in making a name for themselves already.”

“A name?”

“Rook…a brave mutant girl that saved several of our people from the purists and used her powers to get them and their charges to safety…Rook…a brave mutant girl that had fought and brought justice to our dead and those left untouched by the laws of the normals up above…And now this the supplies that you’ve brought…these are very good deeds.”

I cross my arms and my cloak and slip my marble away. “Okay look…those jerks are on my turf and they didn’t respect that so they paid the consequences. Two…that fucker deserved what he had coming and he was a threat to MY area…then I found out he killed a friend of mine so that, that was revenge. And this, this is charity only insofar as it’s gotten me here and some consideration with me buying stuff here that I can’t get anywhere else.”

I look at them all. “I am not a good person, so don’t make it look like I am.”

I’m not…

Green guy's giving me that look like uh-huh and that I’m a child and he’s the adult. I give him a deeper scowl. He just nods and puts that face away looking neutral. He extends a hand to me. “I’m Oak.”

“Oak…Rook so are we good they can all chill out?”

He nods and the guards there seem to relax. “Come we should talk about the things that you need and that we need.”

“You need?”

“You seem good at procuring things.”

“We can do business.”

“We’re poor here Rook we don’t have a whole lot to offer.”

“I know, I’ve seen but the thing is Oak you don’t know what I value.”

I’ll skip over the really boring details that we got through except he made us tea while Shepherd went over and through all of my stuff I brought in and it was pretty decent stuff for tea.

Links there making comments too in the conversation on some of the people that I’ll be needing to see for the thinks that I want to get or have made.

They need everything here…

Underground, refugees and not really able to get stuff like people can do everyday up top.

Looks like link is not just going to be putting me up but she’s going to be my guide too.

That saves a lot of bother and I’ll be staying here at Grand central so that’s a lot easier.

I look at Oak.

“I’ll help as I can, when I can but there are things that I want, that I need.”

“As I said we don’t have much.”

“Teachers, you have teachers and I need to learn things about fighting and other things, you have other meta’s here and I can learn from there and I can get anonymity here in a way I can’t get up there.”

He nods.

“Oak?”

He gives me an eyebrow.

“No promises but I might be able to get a doctor down here but he’ll need to be safe, no locking him up down here and keeping him.”

He nods. He doesn’t dispute the thing I just mentioned, there have been members of things down here that thought it was perfectly fine to kidnap people with certain skills and keep them here.

That has done wonders for the whole mutants will kidnap your babies and raise them as freaks thing.

“I’ll keep it quiet but have Shepherd start making preparations just in case.”

“Okay good, we done here?”

“I think we are and thank you for the donations they’re a huge help.”

We actually shake hands and Link and I leave and we start walking to her place. I see Serina and some other’s on this sort of metal welded patio floating in the air and she and them are looking at me and well she’s doing her best to actually look down on me from up there as they’re having some kind of card game and having drinks.

I can’t believe it, even here.

Actually I can believe it there are douchebags everywhere. “And here I though that I missed high school.”

Link looks at me. “What?”

I nod at them. “Look it’s the cheer squad and the jocks from mutant valley high.”

She’s looking up and she giggles. “Shit you’re right!”

Oh Serina looks less than pleased that Link is laughing and she stare at her hard and then at me.

I project out to her. ~Look Serina, you think I’m someone you want to watch because I’ll be someone? I don’t want to be someone just myself. But you get in my way I will do thinks that you and all your little entourage will regret, stay away from me and we’ll be fine.~

We’re staring at each other…she’s ignoring her entourage and not willing to break the staring until I focus and focus on her eyes and I can feel that almost psi-touchy thing of this intensity coming off of her.

She’s not trying to read me but it’s more like I can feel her focus on me.

I…was going for that a little motive hidden in why I’m so focused on her eyes…I do a telekinetic brush of her lashes.

She twitches and flinches and rubs her eyes.

Then the glare when she realizes I got past her.

~You blinked. ~

“C’mon Link I’m done here. I never was one for playing with Barbies.”

“Oh…that’s a gang down here y’know.”

We’re walking and that, that made me laugh.