(“Can we do that?,” asked Ken.

“I don't see why not,” said Gen. “The others would have to know you wanted to talk to them at the same time.”

“I can ping everybody and we can send text around,” said Itchy. “What are we trying to do?”

“You let us know that the Pythons and Skulljacks are going to war, and Sana is waiting for the hurricane to reach shore so he can stop it because of his limited range,” said Cyrus. “Then I can help with the war because Ultraman is bulletproof.”

“I think Luna and I can help with the war,” said Kay. “She has her slimes and I have my illusion powers. We can help track down the Pythons and figure out what's going on with them.”

“I can feed them to my boys,” said Rabbit. “They would love to chew on some criminals.”

“So we're agreed on what we want to do,” said Cyrus. “I'll carry Sana out to stop the hurricane. You three look around to find out what's going on with the Pythons. We'll help you as soon as we get done.”

“Where should Rabbit and I get started?,” asked Kay. “I don't investigate things much in game.”

“I think Vizor might know where they hang out as part of his skill set,” said Itchy. “Let me roll.”

He dropped two percentile dice on the rolling part of the table. He smiled at the seventeen that came up.

“All right,” said Gen. “Vizor knows that the Pythons control the east part of the city, and are known for keeping snakes, and feeding their enemies to the native reptiles.”

He traced a streak across the holographic city with his finger.

“Does Vizor know what the Skulljacks control?,” asked Rabbit. She leaned over the city.

“I will say that he does so he doesn't have to roll again,” said Gen. He ran his finger over a section of the city that was a square that was a few blocks away from the end of the Python territory.

“They might be trying to expand into that area but the Skulljacks are blocking them,” said Kay.

“It's simple and easy to work with,” said Rabbit. “I like it.”

“So do you think the plan is ready?,” said Gen.

“I think so,” said Itchy. “Who goes first?”

“Let's do Ultraman and Sana,” said Gen. “If Sana can stop the hurricane, that will be one card down.”

“I'm assuming that we hashed all this out and Ultraman has agreed to fly over and pick Sana up,” said Cyrus.

“It beats trying to get close on land, and having to avoid stuff thrown by the wind,” said Ken.

“All right,” said Gen. He drew a line to the coffee house, then from there to the edge of the storm out at sea.

“Looks good,” said Ken.)

Ultraman arrived in his work clothes, red shirt and pants with silver stripes down the side, and augmented face mask to give him radio, net and vision options. He didn't have any guns like the rest of them. His fists did that for him.

He picked up Sana and lifted him out of the city's airspace. They headed out to the wall of wind coming for the city.

“You're going to have to carry me in close,” said Sana. “I have to be almost in touching distance.”

“I got it,” said Ultraman. He sped into the rain and wind, holding the other man close so the wind wouldn't send his passenger into the ocean after a long flight at the mercy of rain and lightning. “I won't be able to keep you safe from lightning.”

“I should do something about that,” said Sana. He said something in sounds that made no sense. A bubble of clear air surrounded them as they flew.

“Can you really stop a hurricane?,” asked Ultraman.

“I've never tried before this,” said Sana. “We're going to have to get closer than this.”

Ultraman sped on. The wind had been buffeting, but under the shield, he could speed up even more than his cruising speed.

“All right,” said Sana. “I'm ready to try. Just hold me in place.”

He said a sentence in gibberish. The wind started to slow, the lightning not quite everywhere. He said it again. The clouds started to break. He said the sentence again. The sky became a fog breaking around them.

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“I'm pooped,” said Sana. “I need to take a nap and recover some of my reserve.”

“Good job,” said Ultraman. “Where do you need to be dropped?”

“The Bower Tower,” said Sana. “I'm going to take a nap and wait for you guys to need me again while I try to recoup what I spent.”

Ultraman headed for the roof of the needle-like building in the center of the city. From there, you could see most of the city from there.

He dropped Sana on the roof. He flew off to make sure Luna wasn't killing someone with her slimes.

Sana used a secret door to enter a secret room inside the tower. He sat down in the middle of a ring of holy symbols. He closed his eyes and began to meditate. He had to recoup what he had spent in case he had to go back into action.

The others could do as much as they could with pure detective work. It would be up to him to help them deal with the forces that would try to stop them when they were too close.

And someone had to be on hand in case Luna needed to be checked. None of the others could do that.

Luna had used a slime to arrive in the Python territory marked out by Vizor. The wind barely blew against her orange summoner's dress. Sana and Ultraman stopping the storm had been terrific as far as she was concerned.

She stood on a street corner and watched the people around her. She picked out a few of the Pythons. They all wore scaled scarves, or boots, or belts. They looked armed to the teeth.

If she wanted to find out what was going on, she needed to talk to someone who knew something. That meant she needed a Python who knew why they're going after Skulljacks. She doubted she would find a shot caller on the street. She did have minions she could ask where their boss happened to be at the moment.

Her slimes could grab one of those minions well enough. Then she would have to convince the minion she was serious. That seemed so tedious. She wanted to have fun with this.

And she liked being as showy as possible.

How did she get started? She decided that she needed to make a pick first. She started walking behind a set of goons. She wanted to grab one, and leave the rest so scared they wouldn't think of trying to stop her.

Once she had her prize, she needed a place to talk to him without anyone interrupting the conversation. So she needed something like an abandoned house, or store. Once she had her target secured inside, she could go to work on him.

And if the Pythons got wise to what she was doing, she had to be ready to fight them at full power.

If she could solve this before Sana, she could rub it in his face for a while until he did something he could rub in her face.

She was the great and mighty Luna. She did all the face rubbing of their group.

Luna summoned her henchslime, Jeeves. She told him what she wanted to do. He nodded his featureless head before flowing down the street after the Pythons.

Jeeves knocked the intended prisoner out with a slurp and swallow. He grabbed the other two with limbs of slimy flesh. He threw them against the nearest wall facing the street. He retreated with his victim inside of him. He caught up with Luna and bounded away like a boneless kangaroo.

Luna directed him to a boarded over house. She asked him to open the front door so they could enter in the dark. Once they were off the street, she could go to town.

The slime plopped their prisoner in a dusty chair and threw his guns away. If the thug wanted to do something, he would have to use his hands. And Jeeves was a master of the martial arts.

Luna dropped a small ball of slime on the floor and commanded it to light up. A soft glow filled the room at floor level. The first stage had gone better than she had thought. Now she had to find out if he knew anything.

“Wake him,” she commanded. “We might as well do something now that we've started snooping.”

Jeeves raised a fingerless paw and slapped their captive's face. The man groaned and he frowned at the tiny girl in front of him.

“Who are you supposed to be? Goku?,” he asked.

“I am the great and mighty Luna,” said Luna. She gestured at herself with both hands. “This is my great and mighty servant, Jeeves. We would like to know why you started shooting at the Skulljack gang and how we can stop that sort of thing from going on.”

“Why should I tell you anything?,” asked the Python.

“Eat whichever hand you want, Jeeves,” said Luna. “Maybe he will be more helpful once he sees we're serious.”

“You can't eat my hand,” said the Python. “I need my hand.”

“Then you better tell me something before I get impatient and let Jeeves have all of you,” said Luna. “I can get another one of you easily.”

“I don't know what happened, but word came down from the shot callers wanted certain people hit,” said the Python. “It didn't matter if they were Skulljacks or not. We just had to cause trouble, maybe let some of the hitters free to cover anything really bad and then drop out of sight against any retaliation.”

“Who would know what was really going on?,” said Luna. She rubbed her chin as she thought.

“Buckshot,” said the Python. “He does all the deals for us.”

“Where do I find Mister Buckshot?,” asked Luna. She was too short to loom over him, but Jeeves happily stood in for her.

“I don't know,” said the Python. “He likes to stay mobile.”

“If you want to stay mobile, you better give me a better answer than that,” said Luna. “The great and mighty Luna is not playing around. Jeeves can take you apart piece by piece.”

“I really don't know where he is,” said the prisoner. “He likes to ride around in an auto car.”

The screeching of tires reached Luna's ears. She wondered who would drive like that in this neighborhood. She threw a slime out to check on it. It bounced back that armed men were spreading out to shoot up the house.

“So you called your friends,” said Luna. “That's fine. I was going to have to talk to someone else if you didn't know anything. This looks like a job for Jumbo. Jeeves, take him out of here and down to the river. If he tries anything, you can eat a hand.”

The slime grabbed the Python and bounced to the back of the house. It crashed through a window and bounced away from the house. Screams from its captive followed it as it fled.

“Everyone thinks they can just shoot at the great and mighty Luna,” said Luna as she took back her light slime. She didn't need light for what she was going to do. “That is a big mistake.”

She summoned her biggest creation and let it wrap around her. She smiled as it lifted her off the ground and kept expanding through the ceiling. She cackled as the slime knocked the walls out of the way with its growing body.