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Chapter 5 - Chapter 5 The Villain In The Sewer

As the three of them arrived at one of the empty houses Mia opened her menu and turned her super smell ability on and then said "I forgot how horrible this power actually is." Mia began to cover her nose as she said "It only enhances a person's smell, I'll have to find the smell we want and focus in on it." Leo stared at her with a confused look as he asked "What are you doing?" Mia glanced at him still covering her nose as she said "This power increases a person's smell much more then needed, I can actually smell everything in and outside of the house… unfortunately… it includes all of the rotten smells too." Mia began to glance around as she said "Something smells rotten… I can't even focus on smelling something that smell like the people we're looking for." Alice seemed intrigued as she said "Something rotten? That means that you can probably smell something inside of the refrigerator, that's really impressive." Mia smiled awkwardly as she said "Thanks… I guess." After standing around for a while Mia said "I think I might've figured out which smell belonged to this person." Leo and Alice both stared at her excitedly as they asked "Where to?" Mia continued to cover her nose as she walked outside and said "We have to follow it still." As Mia quickly covered her mouth Alice asked "What happened? Is someone using a superpower against you?" Mia fell to the ground still covering her mouth with one hand as she mumbled "N-no… we're… approaching a sewer… I think I might throw up."

Leo pulled her up from the ground as he said "Come on, push through it, just think about all of the people that you might be able to save!" Mia continued to walk while holding her nose as she said "Fine." After walking for a few more moments Mia stopped directly above the sewer and said "You've gotta be kidding me." Leo and Alice both stood there for a moment and stared at the sewer cover as Leo asked "Is it down there?" As Alice began to move the cover she said "My observation ability is detecting that this manhole cover has been removed recently." As Alice attempted to remove the cover Mia shouted "No wait! If you uncover that before I deactivate my pow-" however before she could finish speaking Alice removed the cover to the sewer and glanced at her while holding it as she said "Sorry did you say something?" Mia covered her mouth trying to hold back the puke as she tried to run from the sewer but before she could make it very she fell to the ground and began puking on the side of the street. Leo and Alice stood there watching her for a moment and then glanced at each other. Leo turned his attention back to Mia as he said "Maybe you should deactivate that power." As Mia opened her menu her cheeks puffed up with puke once more as she struggled to turn the power off. Just before she managed to turn the power off she continued to puke once more. After a few more seconds Mia stood up wiping her mouth.

Mia began to slowly approach Leo and Alice and then stopped a few feet away as she said "Please don't tell anyone about this." As Alice dropped into the sewer to avoid the topic Leo awkwardly said "S-sure, it was to help people after all." After standing there in awkward silence for a short while Leo turned around and began to slowly lower himself into the sewer. Once in the sewer he mumbled "This really does stink, I can't even imagine how horrible it must've been with super smell." As Leo took a few steps forward Mia dropped in behind him and said "Wait up, I want some points to." Leo glanced behind himself at her as he said "Are the points all you care about?" Mia stared at him as if he said something absurd and said "Of course not… I also wanna save people… I just need the points so I can save more." Leo continued to walk as he said "So it is about the points… well whatever, having personal gain as a motive is still a motive, and as long as your using that motive for good then I'm fine with it." As Mia followed him she asked "Well what's your motivation then?" Leo thought for a moment about when he was joining the army and then said "My goal? It's to protect my country… through any means necessary." After saying this they spotted Alice hiding by a corner. Once they got closer Leo asked "Do you see anything?" As Leo said this Alice screamed and then turned to him as she angrily said "Would you mind not doing that, you almost gave me a heart attack!"

After Alice yelled at him she turned back to the corner and muttered "What a jerk." Leo stood there confused as he said "B-but… all I did was ask a question." Mia put a hand on his back and patted it as she said "Don't worry about it, we all make mistakes." Leo glanced at her even more confused as he asked "What do you mean?" As Alice dashed around the corner Mia quickly followed leaving Leo there as he tried to figure out what he had done wrong. As Leo followed behind them he asked "Is it because you got a bit scared?" Alice glanced behind herself for a moment as she angrily said "I was deep in thought and you threw me off!" Leo stared at her as he said "Look I'm sorry, what were you thinking about anyway?" As Alice turned another corner she said "I was thinking about where they'd set up a base inside of a sewer." Mia stared at her nervously as she said "Y-you figured it out right? I'm not gonna have to use my super smell power again am I?" Alice nodded as she said "Yes I figured it out… and I would've figured it out sooner if someone didn't scare me." As Leo followed them he said "Look I said I was sorry, what more do you want?" Alice glanced at him for a moment and then crossed a thin metal fence like bridge to the other side of the sewer as she said "Just forget about it… it's not worth making a big deal about anyway, their hideout should be this way." Leo and Mia continued to follow her as Mia asked "How do you know?" Alice pointed to the water and said "Look at the current, it's all being pushed out this way, so that means that it's likely that they set it up in the direction the water is heading." Leo glanced at the water as he said "But why not the opposite direction?" Alice glanced at him as she said "It's very simple, its because setting their base up in the direction the water goes means that it'll eventually lead into a big room with water, which also means that our villain probably has some sort of water power."

As Leo continued to follow them he excitedly asked "Do you think he's gonna have something cool like water manipulation!" Alice seemed nervous as she said "We better hope not, if it's a water manipulator… then we're all in over our heads." Mia glanced at Leo as she said "Yeah, a water manipulator is seriously bad news, the worst case scenario water manipulator would be a villain who put enough points in it to overcharge the ability and can control the ocean." Alice glanced back at him as she said "But luckily that's never happened, but that villain would easily be consider an extinction level threat and would take top priority around the globe." Leo stopped moving as he said "Overcharge?" Alice and Mia both stopped as Alice said "You know, like getting a power with no limits and putting in more and more points so it becomes even stronger." Mia nodded as she said "Yeah, just like that one water manipulator villain who was able to cause tsunamis, although he was stopped shortly after destroying one city." Alice nodded as she said "Yeah, he was caught by some big shot, they refused to reveal his name though, and nobody knows if the water manipulator is still in prison or not." Leo thought for a moment and then excitedly said "You mean there's a guy who's capable of controlling a tsunami, and that there's a guy who's even stronger then that?" As Mia and Alice began to walk away Alice said "That's not the part you should be focusing on, you should be focusing on the fact that this person may be incredibly dangerous." As they all continued to follow the flow of the water they ended up in a decently large room with a large pool of water that the sewage was being drained into.

As they all stared at the pool of water they noticed a raft like structure on top of the water with a little less then a dozen people sitting on top of it. Alice got close to the wall as she said "Quickly try your best to hide while I try to figure out what our best way of attack is and what we might be up against." After waiting there for a moment a woman with blue skin and gills jumped out of the water. Leo pointed at her as he silently asked "Is she a water manipulator?" Alice shook her head and then said "No… I don't think so." Leo smiled as he ran towards her while shouting "Then that's all I needed to hear!" Just as Leo was about to tackle the blue lady Alice shouted "Wait it might be dangerous." The lady quickly glanced at them as she shouted "What are you doing in my evil lair?" After she said this Leo tackled her into the water while shouting "We're here to feed those people you kidnapped!" Once they were in the water Alice and Mia quickly rushed over to the water and began to call out for Leo. After calling out to him for a short while they eventually quit and turned their attention to the people on the raft like structure who were tied up and had some role in their mouths to keep them silent. As Alice looked around for something useful Leo was tossed out from the water covered from head to toe in dozens of cuts and scratches and slammed into a wall causing the wall to break slightly behind him. The blue lady then peeked her head out from the water and said "I've been waiting for some young heroes to make an appearance."

Leo glanced up at her as he said "My thick skin didn't work, she must have sharp nails or something." The lady smiled as she said "Killing three of you while I have hostages should reward me with a very large amount of points." Alice stood there staring at the woman for a moment and put on a fake smile as she said "O-oh yeah… well if we defeat you before rescuing the hostages we'll also get a ton of points." The blue woman glared at her and then said "You all have no hopes of leaving this place alive." Just as the blue woman was about to go back under the water Alice shouted "My observation skill tells me, she has two known powers, sharp claws and amphibian, those are probably here own powers since she doesn't seem like a very well known villain!" The blue woman flinched for a moment and then smiled as she said "So you have an information power?" The blue woman jumped out of the water at her as she said "Then you should die first." Alice stood there frozen for a moment as she said "W-wait… I don't have a combat power, s-so um… maybe we should stop and talk about this." The woman raised her right hand directly up above her head as she smiled and said "Say goodnight… forever." As the blue woman slashed through Alice she fell to the ground with a bloody slash through her chest. The blue woman smiled as she said "That's one down." As the woman was about to turn away Alice's body seemingly disappeared.

The blue woman quickly looked around as she asked "What happened? Did you have another power besides that information one?" The blue woman quickly spotted Mia who was standing at the opposite side of the room as she shouted "Was it your power?" Mia smiled as she said "That's right, I have the power of illusion!" The blue woman smiled as she said "If you overcharged that ability you could make the whole world see what you want them to, you could hold the entire world in the palm of your hand!" Mia continued to smile as she said "I don't wanna be a villain who runs the world, besides, currently I can only manage this on one person at a time." As the blue woman got closer to Mia Leo tackled the blue lady to the ground and began to punch her while shouting "Now I've got you!" As Leo held her to the ground she began to claw at his sides and back turning him into even more of a bloody mess then he already was. As he was getting scratched he shouted "Hurry up and do it already!" While he was holding the blue lady there Alice raised a pipe over her head and then shouted "Alright, I'm ready!" As Leo let go he rolled off of her avoiding the pipe as Alice slammed it into the blue woman's head knocking her unconscious. Once she was out for the count the three of them got notifications telling them that they earned two hundred and thirty seven points. Leo stared at the screen for a moment and then excitedly shouted "We did it!"