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Chapter 4

"Alright time to go, the families are waiting for us. How does it feel to earn 100k in a day?" Gerald asked

"Great! haha, though it seems like they'll check the patients in a few days for signs of regrowth but honestly I think we're in the clear." Cleric said.

I nodded and looked at Panacea "Thank you for looking after my...Brother, I know he can be a handful. I am Dauntmore by the way."

Panacea the dear, pushed through her tiredness and greeted me "No problem, we may have butted heads but the help is always appreciated."

"So you're the leader of D-Wave huh" - Vicky said or shall I say Glory Girl since she's in her cape costume also 'yoink' just got panaceas and now for another power...

"Yup"

"Cool! Great to have another hero group in town, we should like’ totally work together! Show you the ropes you know? Haha"

"Sounds great, We would love to have your help with Lung"

"Of cours-wait Lung!"

"Just kidding"

"Agg you're not funny"

That just made me laugh even more, "Sorry couldn't help myself, but in seriousness any help is welcome, we already owe you guys with Panacea today."

"Good! I'll show you the best places to beat up nazis!" Vicky said

"Vicky...." Panacea glared at her sister and she wilted

"Ah I mean arrest some nazis, cough anyway I tried to ask Cleric about your teams' name but he didn't know what the D stands for?"

"Ah, it’s nothing special really."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"......."

"Well, what is it?"

"And spoil the mystery? Where's the fun in that?"

"Agg what an ass, come on Amy let's go home already." 

Amys’ eyes quickly glanced at the female cape D-star and said goodbye and flew off with Glory girl, the view up her skirt was something I'd never forget. Turning back to my team I asked if they were ready to go.

***

"So where did you go while I healed?" Cleric asked

"Once Armsmaster felt comfortable with everything we went to the bank to get our money, I had to set up a Hero cape account which wasn't too hard with Armsmaster backing me up. But if we ever lose the card it will be a bitch and a half to get another one, oh and you owe Armsmaster 3 free healings."

"Understood, so now what?"

"Well, some late-night shopping, and no not the stealing kind. We have a lot of things to buy, it's only 5 pm, if we have a late dinner we can get most of it done by 8 pm."

"Ooo I can't wait to get a new purse, I seem to have lost my old ones" - Sam

"Ah yes that reminds me, next time we have a secure bank account I'll pay off our debt to you." - Gerald

"That's not necessary, you only ate some of my food right? And besides the powers are already a good payback." - Sam

"Ah okay...but just let me know if you change your mind once the water bill comes." - Gerald

"Ah sure?" - Sam

***

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♦Topic: New BB healer!

In: Boards ► Brocton Bay Forums ► Capescene ► Heros►Powers►Healing

Original poster: Supremissy!

Hey guys! My boss @Dauntmore wanted me to post this video [Cleric Healing cancer children]

to introduce our cleric who can heal. (sorry for the bad quality I only had my phone)

I know some of you might not know of us yet but hello! We are D-Wave a new hero group in Brockton Bay. So far we have 18? members! I'm Supremissy!

The boss is @Dauntmore 

Our healer is @Cleric_Dwave

The two you saw on the TV were @DStar and @Bob1234 (cape name is just Bob)

The boss also said that we can answer some questions if you like! :3

> Readmcdeed

Wow, so another healer in the bay is confirmed? Great I don't know how they compare to Panacea but anything is welcome.

>Alwayzr1ght

Duh, it's Panacea, the best girl of course.

>Huredmerl

@Supremissy! Can we get more info on Clerics power? Limits? Strength? I can see he can heal cancer but it takes longer than Panacea but he doesn't need to touch the patient.

>Supremissy!

Clerics abilities are still in their early stages, we've gone through a test with Pancea today to check for side effects and we got the go-ahead. Thanks again @Panacea.

So far what we know so far (this is what we observed not confirmed)

1: Heals through restoration

2: Can heal at a minor distance.

3: Can POSSIBLY heal brains - need to check with PRT for m/s effect before we deal with that though.

4: Doesn't require medical knowledge - as a cleric doesn't know anything lol.

>Ilikecats

>2: Can heal at a minor distance.

> So he can only heal kids?

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"Enjoying your new phone?" Tinker Gerald asked 

"Yeah, though it's annoying to go back to a decade-old phone."

"Well why not put a charge into it?" - Tinker Gerald asks

"That'd be a waste, If I was going to create a better phone I'd need to add more security charges like summoning and indestructibility."

"Like your underwear?"

"Yes like my underwear, why don't you have a go with my phone, put those tinker abilities to good use."

Tinker Gerald shrugged "Sure but there's only so much I can do unless we get more tinker powers."

I just nodded at that, we hadn't spent all of today's charges, which means we have something we should do it right now, stacking them is just letting the charges rot. Using them now is like an investment.

Right now we are in the place that Sam recommended, it was an abandoned warehouse cliche am I right? But it will serve our purposes for now. Especially once the group I sent off earlier spent the day fixing it up, through the powers of the charges the warehouse has been transformed.

We got back at 8:15 pm with dinner and sat and ate it, I gave a brief summary of what I and my team did for the day. I said that I would meet up with the groups later tonight for a debrief of what they got up to. Hugh saw that I was ready for the tour and walked me around.

"Well boss thanks to you, we-I had more than enough charges to play around with."

"Any left over?" 

"Ah about 5, thought I'd be nice and leave you some."

'He burnt through 21 charges in a day just for a base? This better be good.'

“We spent 6 charges into a refilling mints container, it refills over a month but the mints give you a level 3 power in Geokenesis and a minty freshness. With over 10 people we made quick work on the foundations.” Hugh

"Clearing out any trash or rocks in the floor, then we smoothed it out and increased the density, increasing the strength of it. Luckily this works on metals too so we fixed the warehouse's structure where we could on the inside first, then I got the boys to make some sturdy walls."

He was gesturing to the walls as he talked about the thickness, 2 meters all around and a height up just below the warehouse windows.

"Where did you get the material for it? Did you give someone the power to shit bricks?"

"Pah, that'd be a waste. I thought you’d want a proper lair so I started digging down, I used the outfill for the walls."

"Are they strong enough? It's just dirt right?"

Hugh shook his head.

"We ran into bricks just under the concrete floor, this warehouse must have been rebuilt on top of a bricked version. The brick material we remade into large 1-meter cubed bricks filled with compact dirt. It's not perfect but it's better than nothing for now, soon I bet those tinkers will make some shielding for the whole place."

"The warehouse floor is divided into 3 large areas, the main front that regular people or future clones may have cape meetings there. Toilets, beds and shower rooms are all ready for it to be fitted."

He walked me through the 'common' area, that's where we ate our dinner. It was rather sparse, the furniture there was all made from stone and repurposed metal, you wouldn't be able to tell that it was scrap and crap the day before. But there were still missing elements like lights, fridges and soft couches. We passed a door that seemed to be dividing the warehouse.

"Here it's storage, we have shelves and crates ready for items. We are still deciding how to organise and further divide this up, after all, we probably want to separate the hard materials from kitchen supplies."

We quickly walked through the 'storage area' into an even more sparse room except there was a hole with a slope leading to the flat surface.

"Here is our garage/workshop it also provides access to the lair and outside, if we develop vehicles or heavy machinery then we need proper access in and out."

"Good thinking, we can't exactly just open the door and drive out. Okay, this is a good start, we shouldn't be too hung up on perfection at this stage. Leviathon could eventually flood and ruin this place"

"Ah yes...I mean thanks boss"

"Good, make a list of what you need, powers, materials, people. I'll hold a proper meeting tomorrow and we can organise and sort it out. I'm sure the others are also eager to build the lair, I know I am"

'This garage will be very useful, I suppose getting Squelers’ power is a higher priority now.'

"What other powers did you get with the charges?"

"Hmm let's see, 6 charges into Geokenesis, 3 charges into construction knowledge, 3 charges into durability, 3 charges into stamina, 3 charges into flight and 1 into organising"

"Why flight? I was going to get it from the dallons pretty quick anyway."

"We really needed a way to stack the bricks, we can carry them with our own strength thanks the the brute boost. But the walls were too high, and you did say I could use whatever I wanted."

"Hmm yes, I did, it's just a shame though. Remind me during the meeting tomorrow that we need to update everyone's powers, I got Panacea and Glory Girls today. We've been getting them so fast I haven't had time to test each one out. I think that's what I will do for the evening until bed. Unless there's anything you need to ask of me?"

"Are we sleeping at Sam's place tonight? The base doesn't have any beds at the moment"

I slapped my face, I was so busy buying clothes, laptops and phones that I forgot about beds! I really need a manager, I can't keep track of the kids I have. I turned to Hugh.

"Get the people with charges to make an item duplication power, it can be limited to just Sam's stuff I don't care. Then get someone to make a portal or inventory skill to transport them"

"Understood boss!"

I nodded at my minion, son, self? I walked into the empty workshop and started to play around with Glory Girls flight mode.

"Okay I should have done this hours ago, weeeeeee!"

***

The next day.

"Okay guys time to get our bums into gear, we're going after cape powers today. We've got tge copy power down we need an invisible, intangible and tracking power. I wanted to wait for shadow stalkers copy but that's too slow."

"What?" - Sam

"Ah, that's right, by the way, Sam! To make a Long story short, I have a power to create powers, everyone here besides you is a clone of me that we change the look of. The worlds gonna get into some world-ending shit in a couple of years and I/we know some stuff to prevent capeche?"

"Oh and don't spread that around."

"Gulp"

He pointed to 3 clones and said "So you three create an invisible/stealth power" Turning to the left he pointed to the next 3 "You three create a parahuman tracking power, and the next three create a resurrection/respawn ability"

There was only one left and looking into his eyes

"Lastly you create an intangible skill, Once that's done and shared we will split off into 6 groups, 4 groups will search the city, 2 groups will remain here and fix up the up. Use Panaceas’ power to create a vegetable garden, once we have a stable food supply we can get more clones, anything else?"

Tinker Gerald raised his arm, and Gerald gave him the go-ahead.

"We've got a duplicate and inventory power, I'd suggest that if anyone sees anything good get a copy of that. Stocking up on materials and machines that we can reuse for tinkering would be great."

"Great idea, TVs, radios, laptops anything that you think would be useful, alright everyone take a backup costume in case you need to disguise yourselves."

***

Sams POV

'So everyone here is a clone? I thought his power was brutes, but no he can grant powers so a cloning power is possible. He gave me brute powers too so he's not lying about that, does that mean I could clone myself? Would I want to? Would I be forced to? He said something about resurrections, so he expects us to die? Is that why he cloned himself? '

I looked at the groups of people, there were kids, teens, adults middle-aged people. Both female and male, this was all one person? I don't think I could handle such a thing, to think that I'm not me. Gerald...he's doing this all to save the world? he's a true hero to be able to do such a thing to save the world.

Eventually, the groups that Gerald pointed at got together and organised and created the 'powers' , I should have expected that it would be in such a mundane item. This time it was a spray bottle, a line of people all getting sprayed in the face with water then gaining where they would gain powers that millions dreamed of.

So easy? ha... should I go up? Am I allowed to have them? At that moment I felt a hand on my shoulder, I turned and looked it was Gerald or "Dauntmore" since he was dressed in his costume. The friendly man who was only a couple of years older than me spoke.

"If you want you can have them to, we're a team after all." 

"Bwah?" I said gracefully

"The powers that we share, we've got quite a few and the stronger you are the less we need to worry about you."

"Worry...about me?"

"Yes, we will be stirring up the hornet's nest and people will want to get at us. I don't want anyone to die under my command, clone or non."

I started to heat up in the face, I had never felt such warmth and care. Everyone I knew always looked out for themselves first, a slight frown at 'that' memory resurfacing but I squashed it down just as quickly. Dauntmore was expecting a reply, I shouldn't keep him waiting.

"Aren't you worried that I would betray you?"

That seemed to amuse him but he stopped and told me

"No, we know the type of person you are. You opened your home to strangers and feed us, once you got brute powers you decided to follow us. I am a great believer in 'paying it forward'. If I recieve kindness I will return it , that also goes for malice..."

"But practically, if you ever did betray us we wouldn't be in a position that you could threaten us. I could just create a power that would prevent such a thing."

'Kill me, he could create a power that could kill me easily, and that's only one of him! I guess this I'm stuck with them hehe...'

"Okay, I have any-power you can give me, if that's okay."

"We won't give you the power to create powers but anything else is fair game, probably. You can line up with the others and get the tracking and newly made powers, I also have a power to give copies of my powers. I will give you the rest now"

I sudden flash of warmth spread through my whole body, it felt euphoric.

"What...powers did you give me?"

Gerald looked down at his hand and started to count his fingers while listing them off.

"Well, there's Biokenesis, Glory Girls Power, Armsmasters, velocities, basic brute from earlier, clerics healing, Geokeneisis, inventory, item duplication, clone. For tinkering there's chemicals, clothes, materials and flight, anti-thinker and anti-master. Oh and power copy that's restricted for reasons."

"Gulp...that's a lot."

He just grinned at me.

"So um what should I do today then?"

"Ah you can come with me, we've got to meet someone"

'Meet someone? a hero?'

***

Fugly Bobs 10:20 am

Two capes were sitting in one of the booths, each had a milkshake but only one was drinking it. If you were a regular on PHO you’d be able to recognise that the people sitting in the booth were the new cape group in Brockton Bay ' D-Wave'. The two members were Dauntmore the leader and the other was supremissy.

"You know I was expecting more rooftops and lairs, not burger joints."

Slurp, Dauntmore seemed to be enjoying his drink but stopped to reply.

"Not everyone can afford lairs you know, and the people we're meeting recommended this place and I've always been curious about this place. Ha, the teams gonna be jealous."

Sam sighed, she was expecting a grandiose meeting with someone like Miss Militia. But she drowned her disappointment in her shake, might as well try it. Gerald seemed to be enjoying it, so I guess I shouldn't waste it....hmmm banana…my favourite.

At that moment two young men entered the burger joint, dressed in mundane wear with sunglasses to 'hide' their faces. Most people wouldn't realise who these normal people are.

"Here they are" Except for Gerald. Gerald waves at the two, they seem to think for a second coming to a decision they made the one to stay and see what the person who contacted them wanted.

"Hello Dauntmore" The one on the right wearing a shirt with some cartoon on it

"Hello Uber, hello Leet. Good to meet you"  Dauntmore greeted the men and gestured for them to sit across them. The two this time didn't hesitate and sat down. 

Sam nearly sneezed out banana milkshake at hearing the names of one of Brockton Bay's villains.

"What? they're villains"

Gerald not perturbed at her outcry simply raised his hand and rocked it back and forth saying "Eh kind of"

"Hey! We're totally villains!"

"Really then I guess I should arrest you?"

"Ah I mean we're just two humble gamers!"

Gerald laughed at their reactions. "Come on let's talk about why I called you here."

"Yes that I would like to know, not many let alone heroes would contact us. At first, I thought you might have wanted to recruit us to your team."

"Hmm our team is already quite full and I can trust them to follow my commands, I doubt that you would be reciprocal for such an arrangement, no I ask of you hear for a commission. I want Leet to build something for us."

Dauntmore slowly put his hand into his costume and pulled out a folder filled with papers.

"Well, I'm sure you already know that Leet can only build so much, what is this? "

"That is a folder of designs for what I want, and I want you to build a Gynoid"

"An anderoid? Hmm Leet?"

Leet picked up the folder and looked at the pages.

"I've never made a full android before, It was always easier to just make armour for us to roleplay as one. The construction of the body shouldn't be hard, I would need more materials."

"But?"

"But I might have a problem with coding it, and I don't feel comfortable being the creator of the next Skynet."

Gerald snorted at that. "I just need the body, and I know you guys like your fiction but remember that those are entertainment. The AI isn't the problem, it’s the person who created it. "

"A true AI if existed would be like us who can think and feel, so they would present as much danger as any regular human. I mean have you ever wondered what would happen if Alexandria, Eilodon or Hero turned against humanity?"

"Hmm.... this would cost about 15,000"

"Doable, however, would you accept materials? Iron, gold? Electronics?"

Leet looked at Uber and a silent conversation took place.

"Yes"

The group of parahumans hashed out the details of the delivery, and the material exchange. Eventually, the talk went to movies and video games which they discussed over the burgers.

2 hours later.

"Well, that went well."

"You reached out to villains to get them to make sex bot?"

Gerald laughed again like he always does and shook his head.

"It's more than a sexbot, but that's beside the point. You should be able to work out the other reason why we came here."

The girl's eyebrows knitted, thinking back over the last two hours thinking she missed some said that was important…

"..You wanted to try fugly burgers"

Gerald didn't laugh but sighed in disappointment. "Sam, I can copy powers, the power to be able to make anything once is powerful. Don't tell me you didn't copy their powers?"

She had forgotten that she could do that, and even that he could also do that. But it wasn't her fault, she had only gotten that power this morning!

"..Um but it's their powers, isn't it wrong?"

"It's not wrong, first off in your words 'They ARE villains'. second, they don't use them to their potential, thirdly I need to save the world. Fourth: I am copying not stealing, they still have the originals."

"I see, I'm sorry. But Why not make the android yourself with the powers?"

"I'm too busy for that right now, and I needed an excuse to contact them Yeah I could just deny them once I got a copy, but having a good relationship with people is important. You never know I might need their help again in the future."

"That's...not what I expected."

"It might seem black and white with heroes vs villains but it’s actually a spectrum, one end you get the goody heroes and the other evil villains. In between you get vigilantes, anti-heroes, and comical villains. The endbringer truce and unwritten rules are a thing for a reason."

"Unwritten rules?"

"Basically don't go after a cape’s civilian life. As that would mean they could do so for you, everyone’s playing with kids' gloves on, well except the slaughterhouse 9."

"Oh and by the way I will be going against that, not publically at least"

"Wait what! why?! You just said-"

Gerald held up his hand to stop her.

"I can handle the consequences, which is another reason I don't mind you getting powers. But for the details, we can talk another time, someplace more secure."

"I ...understand."

****

Meanwhile across town

"Meadhall should be here."

"Is Max inside?"

"How would I know, this is 2011, people broadcasting their locations on Twitter aint a thing yet."

"Tsk, well then you take the top floor, I'll take the first and we meet in the middle."

"What should I do?" The third member asked a tween girl Gerald asked.

"You can be the backup, support anyone who needs it and warn us if you see trouble, everyone remembers to be invisible"

The three split off to do their jobs. 

- First floor, lobby, storage and labs.

Clone 1 activated his 'stealth mode' , a combination of invisibility, sound muffling, heat dampening and anything they could think of when creating it. Using Glory Girls flight he flew down the building and shifted with his intangibility power. Know one knew a thing, the building was normal, with no hanging skulls or nazi symbols, which is actually what should have been expected. Mead Hall was a front for Max Anders aka Kaiser the leader of the Empire 88 gang. 

He continued flying slowly down the hallways occasionally poking his head into the rooms looking for anything of note. 

He saw cases of pills and drugs but not knowing what they were he didn't bother duplicating them or straight-up stealing. He almost hit the janitor but dodged in time, even if he did hit his intangibility would probably make it a non-issue. But his nightmare of a possible Tuvix situation kept him wanting to not test his luck.

Eventually, he came into the storage room, where the trucks get loaded and unloaded. The objects inside were cardboard boxes, packaging tape, and crates ready for shipment. Boring and normal stuff for a pharmaceutical building. A quick text on his phone letting his teammates know that his floor was clear and he was moving up. He almost started to look for the stairs but remembered that he could pass through objects.

"Power's sure are handy, that MC from the novel really did waste his power."

The clone of Gerald thought back to the reason why he was here, that message from ROB, his own anger at the MC for being an idiot. 

'At this point in the story, only a couple of days in the MC was just pouring a strength charge into his shirt repeatedly and because he was doing it vaguely, aka not directing the restrictions he was wasting the charges, making them actually weaker than he could have made it'.

'In hindsight though, I've come to realise that my way of thinking is just different from the original MC. I value versatility and long-term compared to his single mindset and short-term because I naturally worry about possible futures. Probably why I spent so much time daydreaming about events like this.'

Clone Gerald stopped his train of thought as he floated into a computer lab.

'Jackpot, the boys back home will love me'. Gerald looked around for any cameras just in case and found 1 in the corner of the room overlooking the place.

'Hmmm I don't have the power to deal with this directly....oh wait it's pitch black in here. The cameras probably can't see shit. But just in case....'

The clone activated his velocity power and dashed a piece of paper in front of the camera, then as it hung in the air waiting for gravity to take hold of it, he ran around and duplicated the pcs putting them into his inventory power and anything else that looked good.

'Office chair yes! Keyboards! Oooh,a paper shredder I always wanted one of these!'

Once he was done while still in Velocity mode he ran back to the paper in the air removed it and came out of the velocity state. To the camera, less than a second has passed, and so it would appear as just a flicker.

Clone 1 exited the room with a smug grin as he thought about how clever he was, but stopped and smacked his head.

"Ahhh I only needed to copy one pc, the guys back home could just make duplicates of the duplicates! Tsk these exponential powers don't give you time to make use of them because, by the time you try, they are already obsolete."

"Oh well, never hurts to have more I guess."

***

"This is Kaiser? He looks so...normal"

"What, do you think he would dress up like a nazi?"

"..."

"Sigh, just get a copy of his power and let’s go. We can kill him later"

"..."

“And what are you staring at?”

Clone 1 looked to where the 3rd clone was looking, it was the twins Fenja and Menja’s asses.

“Take a picture, it’ll last longer”

The 3rd clone took out his phone and did such a thing.

‘Those restrictions must have made an error in the cloning process I never was this horny right?’

The 3rd clone put his phone away and spoke as if something important came to mind “I wonder if their phones have any nudes?”

Clone 1 shook his head at the others' questions and turned to him.

“Ahh come on we’ve got better things to do”

After getting what they needed and more the medhall team was off.

***

Late at night, Back at the D-Wave base

“Hmm not bad, you managed to get powers from Kaiser, Fenja, Menja, Skidmark, Mush and Miss Militia.”

“Still not as good as we could have" sighed the Gerald clone.

"Don’t worry about it, we’re not actually in too much of a rush. The canon story hasn’t started yet and even Taylor hasn’t got her powers, so that’s at least a couple of months. By then we would have enough powers. Once schools start back the wards and Sophia will be easy to get a copy of their powers.” Said Gerald.

“What are you going to do about Sophia?”

“Hmm I haven’t really thought about it, I could kill her, I could out her, I could remove her powers.... well I was planning on stopping the locker incident so I could go further to help Taylor and put Sophia away.”

“Is that the best option? It's either she gets birdcaged or sent to another city. That's on both extremes, ones too much the others too little.”

Gerald rubbed his chin thinking.

"We'll gather evidence of her and out her to the prt, depending on their decision and how Taylor feels we can then decide. If she somehow loses her powers in another city that’s just a bonus."

"Now that's over I need to check up on the tinker team." Gerald dismissed the clone team and headed to the workshop in the base, on the way he saw the storage was starting to fill up with materials. Entering he saw 3 normal vehicles, 1 motorcycle, 1 van and a large SUV, his team of tinkers were hovering around them seemingly discussing ideas on what to do with them. 

Walking up to the tinker he put in charge he asked how things were going.

"Great, we got these vehicles into day and we have plans for them. The Van will be for support, a people and cargo carrier maybe possible prisoners, great for teams and raids. "

"Using Space technology we can cram a lot more in there than normal. The motorcycle will be for personal mobility, Armsmasters' bike has given me many ideas and we can't rely on your underpants. Especially if we recruit others."

"The SUV will be decked out with armour and weapons, meant for direct confrontation."

"These will be the basic models that we can duplicate when needed and even upgrade from there. Soon we hope to get something for the air and water."

Gerald whistled in awe "Sounds like you guys will be busy."

"Yes, we've been looking forward to making use of squealers power here. We've already put some charges into basic transport, but we've been using the charges on other tinker projects."

"Oh like what?"

"Well, first we put some charges into tools, basic repairing, splitting, joining, strengthing and disassembling that sort of thing. Now that we have parts for parts we've started to cook up a supercomputer, which we can then start creating our own ai."

Gerald nodded, all of these projects he had ideas about in the past and saw it all being a logical step.

"How's the super-serum going?"

The tinker did a so-so gesture.

"Not as quick as I hoped, panacea power and charges into biology and chemistry are working well. We've got faster healing, tougher skin,and tougher bones all adding up to a minor brute rating.If we want to get into the better stuff we need some proper devotion to gene editing information and we need test subjects."

"hmm well don't use innocent people, you have permission to clone more Geralds for testing. 

However, you have to get their consent to the testing."

Gerald was about to leave when the tinker stopped him.

"Ah Gerald, before you go I wanted to let you know that there are new suits for you, they are part organic thanks to panaceas power so they have a slow repair rate and slight shape-shifting ability, and also some surprises!"

Gerald nodded with a smile, his past costume worked fine but it was crude no doubt from being made by subpar materials. He followed the tinker to his room and waited for the man to pull out a suitcase.

Opening it up revealed a costume that was similar to his previous one in colour scheme.

"The material's strength should be 3 times as tough as the one before, resistant to fire, heat and electrical effects. We've also put the anti-master effect into the mask."

"Great stuff, I'll let the others know to pick them up."