"How long will that be?"

"How should I know?"

Whatever.

Aisha stops being noticable and leaves.

Nobell notices her unnoticeability. One says bye on her way out.

FUCK

Okay yeah that's a thing. Aisha... says bye back. She's pretty sure that's how it goes.

Seems to be a satisfactory way for her to respond.

A few days later the power in the Loricae's fancy new house goes out for several minutes - judging by the darkness outside it's the same for the rest of the city.

"UGH, WORKING ON IT," Sarcina calls before anyone asks her, and she rigs the house wiring to the thing that charges the robots before it comes back on.

A few hours later rumors start circulating that Tagg has been arrested.

By... the cops??

Apparently! No one is really sure why, or if this actually happened.

Are the cops sure. She knows somebody who's a cop as his day job, see.

He's being detained while prosecutors work out exactly what to charge him for - but evidently yes, he is under arrest. Apparently he tried to trigger the Endbringer sirens to clear the city for some sort of ploy against the Undersiders.

Wow, fucking with the Endbringer sirens is real bad, fuck that guy. Who's his replacement?

Good question - no one's entirely sure.

Well that's probably bad. But she's not a Ward anymore. It does not have to be her problem unless it's causing issues for her dad.

It takes a few days to sort it out, but eventually someone is promoted internally - Transit hears rumors from other heroes suggesting that the new director was one of the PRT members who broke off and joined the Undersiders during the fighting.

Slightly concerning but he's not going to quit over it till it affects operations.

Miss Militia and the Undersiders agree to an (unwritten) truce where the Protectorate won't proactively go after the Undersiders and will coordinate with them for major threats. Arresting an Undersider who is flagrantly committing a crime - and not in the middle of dealing with someone else who is doing the same - is still fair game.

Left unsaid is how this is more a description of what the Protectorate can actually manage to do in Brockton than it is an agreement they chose to make.

Seems a little more - legitimizing - than he likes, but the Undersiders aren't exactly Nazis.

What, legitimizing? They would never.

From: tattletale@brockton.gov
To: loricae@pho.org

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Hey does your dad want a medal for refusing illegal orders?

From: loricae@pho.org
To: tattletale@brockton.gov

How in the hell did you get a gov address?

I'm not sure he'd appreciate it coming from a villain.

The medal would be from the mayor!

You like the address? I could swing another one if you want to put it on your wish list  - Skitter refuses to use hers anyways.

No thanks, I used to have one but feel I have outgrown it. My dad might like a medal from the mayor but since you're asking I somehow doubt it would be from the mayor. I guess he might like it for the symbolism to give others a good example to look up to either way.

Up to you!