Freya

The pans were in one of the upper cabinets, in the past this would have meant I would need to find a chair or step step stool, but my days of step stool reliance are behind me! Using the new gravity manipulation of my wings I floated up and easily grabbed a pan and then gently landed. Using my enhanced senses cooking was crazy easy.

I was a decent cook, it had been a hobby I had taken up in the last three years however so I wasn’t the world’s greatest cook, but with my new senses and control over my body I may as well have been a chef, It was also with those senses that I heard Mia get out of bed so by the time she came out of her room I had an omelet and coffee waiting for her.

She sat down in front of it and I sat down next to her with my own food as I did she piped up like she hadn’t just woken up

“This is amazing! How did you make this?”

Mia had always been a morning person which had always annoyed me, I on the other hand spent the first hour after I woke up chugging coffee and trying not to strangle everyone that talked to me. But it seemed I had finally found the solution to dealing with Mia after waking up, it was to no longer need to sleep then I didn’t have to wake up! So Instead of the grunt or blank satire Mia’s question would have elicited before, I surprised her by actually responding

“The enhancements make it so easy, it honestly baffles me that you can’t cook.”

I was pretty sure Mia’s kitchen had only ever seen use when I visited. Mia responded without a hint of shame

“Why would I need to when I have you? Especially now that you are living here.”

I just rolled my eyes and took a bite of my food in response, when Mia asked

“So what did you get up to last night?”

I replied

“I went for a flight to give my new body a test run, and it was a good thing I did. Let me tell you I was way too slow, luckily I have fixed it now.”

Mia interrupted me asking

“And just how slow was slow?”

I replied some of my disbelief leaking into my voice as I did

“Just barely over four hundred miles an hour! On top of that the acceleration was awful!

Luckily It was a pretty easy fix. I should be able to hit at least mach one.”

Mia proceeded to throw her fork at me, which I easily caught of course but caused me to look up from my food and ask

“What was that for?”

Mia eyed me before answering

“You were complaining about not being able to go the speed of sound!”

I narrowed my eyes and said

“Would you not be upset if you got one of your gun catalogs to class 5 and the guns couldn’t even fire bullets as fast as bullets from earth?”

She opened her mouth to argue but then closed it, stumped by my flawless logic! She then sighed and said

“Give me back my fork.”

I eyed the fork still in my hand from when I had caught it before answering

“Why? It is not nice to go throwing forks at people who make you breakfast.”

I thought about dragging it out but then her food would go cold and I didn’t go through the trouble of cooking for it to be eaten cold. So sighed and handed the fork back over.

Before asking

“So what are you up to today?”

It took Mia a second to answer, I guessed she was probably talking to her ai, I think his name is Griffin, she then answered

“Well I got to go into the clinic today and take care of a situation there.”

Mia funded a clinic where people could come in and get treated for free. She provided the tech used there too, as besides guns she was also classed a fair amount into medical technology.

Not anything I was interested in so I was going to let it drop, but then she sighed and continued

“Some goons apparently pretended to be injured but once they were inside pulled weapons on my people and grabbed a bit of my tech and made off with it. People have tried before but normally the security I have set up is able to stop them. I will need to figure out how they got by it.”

Mia had always cared about other people and wanted to help which was the reason she ran the clinic. I think I might have cared a little bit more before but now especially if I didn’t affect one of my people or me I can’t say I really cared all that much. But this sounded interesting one because they had fucked with Mia and the other reason it sounded like if I played my cards right I could talk her into letting me hunt them. So I replied

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“Ooo, I can help! From the sounds of things you are going to need to handle things at the clinic. So while you are busy fixing your security, I can go and get your stuff back!”

She thought for a moment before finally responding

“It would be good if I stuck around the clinic today to reassure my people, ok if you are sure I will take you up on your offer.” she then looked at me and smiled saying “Thanks Freya you are a great friend”

I returned her smile for a slightly different reason, yes I am a great friend that is why I am doing this, not just for the pleasure of killing them.

A little bit after we finished breakfast we made our way to the clinic, me riding along in Mia’s hover car, which it had been very difficult to get into with my wings. Eventually we made it there and Mia gave me access to her security system on which I went straight to the recording from the cameras. It was time for detective Freya and detective Titania to get to work

It was just as Mia described a group of eight came in acting hurt coming in through the emergency entrance, before pulling guns they had somehow got past the entrance’s scanning before grabbing Mia’s gear and high tailing it.

A bit of it didn’t add up to me because the way the thieves moved was wrong, they appeared to be just some gang not the kind of people who should have access to the kind of tech that would let them get through a vanguard's security.

The other thing that didn’t add up was they knew what to grab, they didn’t grab anything that was common medical technology, no they knew what to go after they only grabbed Mia’s tech. So i consulted with my detective partner

“What do you think Titania? They definitely have some sort of backer that gave them their tech and provided them with information.”

There is a high likelihood that you are correct, Miss Freya. If I was to make a guess I would assume a corporation was backing them. Which one, while it could be another, Lively Corp has access to the resources to do something like this and just had one of their lowest income quarters on record. Which may have made them desperate enough to risk angering a vanguard, especially with Miss Stitch’s reputation for showing mercy.

“Ha! Bad luck for them, they aren’t getting mia. So to figure if it was Lively Corp or some other group we will probably need to find the gonks and get them to tell us who they were working for, any clue how we do that?”

I can track the path they took when they left from here to their present location using cameras throughout the city.

“Nice, can you please do that?”

Of course pulling up directions now.

I smiled it was finally time to test out my new speed, I was there in under three minutes, just as I had hoped I could indeed break the sound barrier, but as I approached slowed down as it would be a little hard for the gonks to answer my questions if I brought a building down on them.

I grinned as I crashed through one of the windows and found myself being stared at by thirteen gonks, what luck I had only been expecting eight but they had brought me five more toys to play with.

I just sat there watching them for a moment until one of the gonks went for his gun, when he suddenly found that hard due to his sudden lack of arms.

His screaming seamed to wake the other goons from their daze as they all started moving to draw their own weapons and one of them yelled

“Someone shoot that bitch!”

Well that was rude but informative so I asked

“Titania, think he is the leader?”

I believe that is correct, he gave the orders last night at the clinic

I moved, chopping limbs off and debilitating but not killing, yet.

When the last goon was not in any shape to run away I rounded on the head gonk and knocked him on his back breaking his leg in the process before placing my knee on his chest and asked

“So who hired you”

Head goon stared back at me and actually asked well I am not exactly sure what he was going to ask because as soon as I heard him say

“Will you…”

Which didn’t sound like an answer to me so I broke one of his fingers and then I huffed in annoyance and asked

“I don’t see how the question who hired you can be answered with a question, do you? How about you give it another try?”

He clutched his hand with the broken finger but luckily he seemed to catch on quick and gasped out

“I don’t know if they just gave us the job, it was some dude in a suit, we didn't ask questions.”

If you find out what vehicle they brought to pick up the stolen items I will more than likely be able to locate where they ended up

So i asked mister head goon

“And what did the suit man pick up the medical equipment with?”

It seemed we had really turned a corner as head goon responded immediately

“It looked like one of those vans you rent for moving but was all glowy on the inside.”

It was most likely a faraday cage to block any tracking signal the medical equipment was sending out. I have identified the truck and have located the place I believe the equipment was being held and am pulling up directions for you now.

“So we are done here?”

I believe we have gathered all the information that was required.

I had left the goons alive so that they thought if they answered my questions I would let them live. But now I was done with the questions and didn’t need their cooperation anymore, a grin spread itself across my face revealing my fang like canine teeth, which made head gonk recoil at the sight.

I stood and said

“Well you have been a great help! I really should be leaving though.”

I watched as hope wormed its way into several of the goons' expressions, then I drew my swords again and savered watching that hope be squashed. I admit I could have just sent out my feathers and ended things nearly instantly but the swords seemed like they would be more fun.

I moved from one to the next not in any hurry, until it was just the head goon left he was trying to crawl his way to the stairs but his broken leg meant he wasn’t having much success, so being the helpful person I am as I slowly stocked closer I said

“It seems that broken leg of yours is really slowing you down. Let me help you with that.”

I of course did this by getting rid of the problem entirely, by cutting off his broken leg this stopped attempting to crawl to the stairs. Then I remembered that I had broken his finger and chuckled as I asked

“What is wrong now, is it your finger?”

So because I was in such a helpful mood I got rid of that problem too by cutting off the arm the finger was attached to. Unfortunately it was not long until his screaming stopped as he went into shock so I took off his head as I turned and faced the room I discovered I really had made quite the mess.

I sheathed my swords and skipped happily over to the window I had entered through, along the way I jumped and splashed in several puddles of blood I had created.

When I reached the window I looked down to discover I was also covered in blood again, so I sighed and triggered the vibration of self cleaning to remedy that before I launched myself out of the window and began to head to the next destination. While on the way I asked

“So is this Lively corp we are dealing with or someone else?”

It is indeed Lively Corp, the equipment is currently being held in a warehouse with only automated security. Might I make a suggestion?

“Of course.”

It is well within my ability to confiscate all of the funds of the corporation and the investeres that knew of this plan which would essentially put an end to Lively corp. The money would be yours to decide what to do with though I might suggest keeping at least a part of it for any future endeavors.

There was just one issue with this plan it meant that my hunt would be over for the day, and I had such a fun so far it would be a shame to cut it short also why couldn’t I do both

Also you have your meeting with Miss Helena today

“I like the sound of your plan, can you shut down the automated security at the warehouse? Also, can you figure out who was responsible for the idea of stealing Mia’s stuff?”

I can do both those things, the defenses are now down, as for who was responsible, the idea was pitched by the CEO Blake Lively.

“Ok then I am good with bankrupting everyone else and I would like to keep the money, never know when I might need it, but this Blake Lively dude needs to go.”

Very well, redirecting you to his location now.

While on the way I messaged Mia where she could find her stuff and that the security should be down but that she should still tell her people to be careful.

While flying I got a notification telling me I was suddenly about a hundred million credits richer. When I got to him he was in his office. I watched him from one of the windows, he was on the phone yelling at someone about his money suddenly disappearing.

On another day and if Titania hadn’t just reminded me about the date I probably would have taken my time, but today I had places to be so a single feather flew from my wing through the window and straight through his head before returning to my wing.

Upon the feather’s return I smirked at Blake Lively’s corpse, the sheer stupidity to think he could mess with a vanguard and have it end any other way was absolutely hilarious. It truly was a shame I didn’t have time to have more fun with him because something told me he would have made a wonderful toy.

I turned away from the building and started heading for Mia’s clinic so I could fill her in on the specifics. On the way upon Titania’s request I gave her permission to send the relevant details to the police. If I had gone straight there it would have only taken me a few minutes to reach the clinic but I was enjoying my new speed to help make up for the fact that I was cutting the hunt short.