Mystery from Another World

Part 88: Approaching (unfinished)

[OP]

Shine and Wally left the infirmay around noon. WAlly was back to normal, but Shien was still exhausted.

Still she said there was too much clean up to do that day to rest any more.

"Plea don't over do it," Wally said. "You had to array that hwoel smison alone."

'Wel w're both goin that tlatkth kids" Shine said. "And now that I'm awake...I need to explain a more."

She and Wally left ehs chol,t heud both talin anyone, not one was orngain enough to even notice right now.

Once they were out alone, Shine told him the rest of what she'd learned about Hawks, and everytin else.

Wally was shocked that Hawks was working for someone who must have ordered the assissainotn.

"Bu Theo could make ea Pro hero dot hat" he said.

"Soe who knows sotn about him or has someone he crea bout, and he can't afford to lose," Shine noted. "Much as I wish we could take etoday off, if we wait o this--"

"I get it, i'tll get ahead of us," Wally shok his head. "so are we wwarnin the LEauge? I mean...they could be next."

"Not coue, they IL be next once he gets what he needs..b.ut if we wran t hem, we'll top this scale the viailns direction. Is it the right time of rhtat? And the eonly other pro heroes I know are eith at  shock, or Emi, or Mirko."

"Mis Sjoek cna' doano obu this," wAly said. "Could lmirko/ She's a top pro...she must have influence."

"I'm not sure she has any real influence with other heroes. The public maybe, but she's... problamalict." Shine hel dup her jpne. "Iv'e gone over her public stamtesn about why she doe what she does. She sounds crazy. She claims it sjtu foht it of the ifht, and fnai she said last night echoed that feeling. The only good thing I could say is she's fearless, dones' care about owit with viilasn if it gets her what she wants, and did seem worried about Eri."

"Oha...s she's not heraltes," Wally asid. "Plenty of hoers inti ththirl, Balkc Cnaar, Huntress, Shayera...why am I only namng women?"

"Women who want ot be ehreos tend to e more aggressive," Shine shrugged. "I don't care if she enjoys a fight, but, she oner only hits high level targets. She's a slight watered down isn of an assassin helser. She rarely does any rescue missions, and her doing  saml elvl crime that I met her on must have been f like Bien she had nothiogn else to do that day. Seh's hard to track down, since she has no agency either. Frankly, she make no sense as a hero. Shgiank hitned that he found one about her form Rappa that I'd find weird, but of course, no chance to ask him."

She tiled her head. "Would you mind handling asking him about it?I promise Shot I'd help him find out this Hawks thing."

"I don't want to do that," Wally hate otins othe heros beraytitn trust. ESO fi they had Hwak it he am.e [JLU watcser will know why that is.] "I could ask Shiga, but are you sure he'd talk to me."

"he won't hurt you , he wants ut tos hi hi fin Kruiog. might as well find out that he wanted to know. tell him I'l come by to discuss it later, but I want the improtna prts.  He kwno s'wer e steam...and Wally, keep an eye out. What he thinks, I'm not that creepy docotr's we still don't know the eidneiy of isntis tied up in Kiriogn espcnai the first place. IT make too much sense if he was."

"but hey give Ovheraul such a big player?"

"I don't know...It's also like Ovhao WA simply a pawn. A way to eimaitn either smeo foth eivialsn, or some of the heroes. WE must have filed that for the eitm being..b.tu thin also, the LOV wan's going oafter Eri themselves. At first they dindt' even care to do it yet, and then we made them swear off it. They enve seem evye eager to anyway. But there is no way someone who amkes nomu woudntl care about ther and her quirk. If the LVO Wans Ian in doinit, they could use Ovherual to collect her withoith arousing the LEagu'se surpsoign aht they went behdi her back."