Editing Skitter's Surrender (section)

==Events ==
Taylor travelled to the [[PRT ENE Headquarters]] and surrendered.<ref name=":1" /> They gave her a bunch of contradictory orders whilst manhandling her, then brought in [[Clockblocker]] to freeze her.<ref name="22.1a">I remained where I was, hands folded on the back of my head, kneeling, while the PRT officers bellowed at me, almost incoherent, impossible to obey as they gave me contradictory orders.  Down on the ground, stand up, throw any weapons to the side, do not touch anything.
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Miss Militia broke the stalemate, such as it was.  I could see her put one hand on Clockblocker’s shoulder, giving him a gentle push.
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The other guards were alternately herding the civilians out of the area or forming a wall to keep them from watching.<br><br>“Hey!” Clockblocker said.  “That’s enough.  I got this.”- [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/cell-22-1/ Excerpt] from [[Cell 22.1]]</ref>

[[Cauldron]] were immediately concerned.<ref>“It seems we may have just lost Brockton Bay.”<br><br>The Number Man’s eyebrows rose, though his expression remained placid, his gaze fixed on the computer.<br><br>“Skitter turned herself in.”<br><br>With that, he did look up, meeting her gaze.  He saw the truth in her statement and closed his eyes.  Mourning one more lost possibility.<br><br>They’d lost Coil, had lost Hero, and the Triumvirate had dissolved.  They were in the process of losing the Protectorate.  Everything they’d put together, falling apart over time.<br><br>“Is it settled?”  He asked.<br><br>“No,” the Doctor said.  “But she turned herself in, and as far as I’m aware, there is no mischief at work.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/interlude-21-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 21.x]]</ref> 

When Skitter awoke from [[Clockblocker]]'s effect, she was cuffed with heavy duty restraints intended for low-level [[brute]]s.<ref name=":6">[[Cell 22.5]]</ref> Director Tagg, the Protectorate and the Wards were all present. She was taken to a secure cell by Clockblocker and [[Triumph]]. A female PRT officer had her strip and searched her. She listened in on the heroes' discussions regarding her goals and how to contain her using her power.<ref name=":2">[[Cell 22.1]]</ref> Her capture was widely reported on both TV and radio across the country,<ref name=":0" /> with the PRT press release designed to emphasize how dangerous her allies were.<ref name=":2" />

[[Flechette]] contacted [[Parian]] to tell her and ask what was going on, but Parian had no idea. The [[Undersiders]] met up to discuss what had happened. [[Bitch]] refused to consider the possibility that she had left, dismissing it as another of Taylor's plans. The Undersiders and Parian met with [[Accord]], who was offended by Skitter's seeming departure.<ref name=":0" />

[[Flechette]] was asked to leave Skitter's range to make a phone call,<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":0" /> which she used as an excuse to meet up with Parian. She waited for half an hour for her to get back to her house, getting herself into trouble with [[Miss Militia]]. She asked to defect and become Parian's lieutenant.<ref name=":0" />

[[Kid Win]] began working with [[Sere]] to complete anti-Skitter defences. The heroes brought in [[Dinah Alcott]], but she refused to cooperate and got in an argument with Tagg, telling him there was a 22.813% chance he was going to die slowly and painfully. They noticed the bugs in the air reacting to Skitter's anger and realised that she could hear them arguing.<ref name=":2" />

After some time, Kid Win completed his drones and began sending them throughout the building to try and destroy Skitter's bugs.<ref name=":2" /> Flechette emailed Miss Militia to reveal she had defected.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3">[[Cell 22.3]]</ref>

Tagg and Miss Militia interrogated Skitter, and she revealed the deadline she had set up with the Undersiders.<ref name=":2" /> They allowed her to call her lawyer [[Quinn Calle]]. While Skitter waited silently for him to arrive, Tagg described his time fighting [[Simurgh]] victims in [[Lausanne]], argued that the [[Birdcage]] was worse than execution, and pointed out that other villains had been inspired to attempt to take over other cities by her actions. Calle arrived, and he and Taylor talked privately, discussing her crimes and outlining the demands she hoped to make the PRT meet in exchange for her surrender.<ref name=":4">[[Cell 22.2]]
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After almost two hours of work, Taylor and Calle presented her demands: in exchange for her surrender, the Undersiders would be quietly allowed to operate unhindered, and Tagg would retire and be replaced by Miss Militia. She would become a PRT operative hunting the [[Slaughterhouse Nine]]. But Miss Militia revealed that the Nine had destroyed [[Toybox]] and vanished into a pocket dimension.<ref name=":4" /> While Skitter revised her terms, Tagg decided to bring in [[Taylor's Dad|Taylor's dad]], and sent out teams of heroes across the city. Taylor had Tattletale make a bid for the land around the portal in [[downtown]] [[Brockton Bay]].<ref name=":3" />

Taylor, her father, and Tagg argued. Tattletale arranged for all the land in a wide area around the portal, which she had been secretly buying up, to be given over to [[Sierra Kiley]] as a proxy for the Undersiders.<ref name=":3" /> 

[[Alexandria]] arrived, dressed in a suit.<ref name=":3" /> She declared that she would capture or kill the Undersiders, one by one, until Taylor surrendered.<ref name=":5">[[Cell 22.4]]</ref>

While Alexandria was out, Taylor attempted to call Tattletale and warn her using the phone in Tagg's office and her bugs. She would type out messages on the keyboard using her bugs, since she didn't have enough to hear or speak.<ref name=":5" /> Tattletale realized that Taylor was being fed bad info, but was unable to communicate this to her.<ref name=":7">[[Cell 22.6]]
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During this time, Taylor was sneaking more bugs into the room with each person who entered.<ref>With each entry that had been made into the interrogation room, barring the one where she'd used the drone in Imp's cell, I'd brought more bugs inside.  Spiders, hornets, black widows, brown recluses and more. - [[Cell 22.4]]</ref>

When Alexandria returned, she realised Skitter had warned the Undersiders. She also deduced that the villains had likely hired mercenaries to help them. Skitter realised that Alexandria was cold reading her. A person arrived on a stretcher wearing [[Regent]]'s costume. After a brief conversation, she went out again and returned with a girl in [[Imp]]'s costume. Alexandria was dripping wet, claiming that the Undersiders had used a hose and [[Ligeia]]'s power to try and drown her. She offered to release the captured villains if Skitter agreed to confess and abandon her terms. Then she went out again, and this time a body bag returned with her.<ref name=":5" /> The "Undersiders" taken in were in fact body doubles, in a ruse shaped to make Skitter either surrender or attack Alexandria and justify taking her out.<ref name=":7" /> Alexandria planned to evacuate the area before she snapped, avoiding the bugs herself using [[Cauldron]]'s resources. Taylor would be sentenced to the [[Birdcage]] and then recruited by Cauldron on the way there.<ref name=":8">[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/22604409 Wildbow on IRC]</ref>

When Alexandria returned, Skitter attacked her using her bugs, aiming for her mouth and sealing her airway with bugs and spider silk.<ref name=":5" /> Alexandria underestimated Taylor's emotions because she was offloading her cues to her bugs, preventing Alexandria from anticipating the attack was coming.<ref name=":8" /> Tagg drew a gun, but Taylor deflected it with a line of silk. She attacked Tagg with her bugs, but had them ignore Miss Militia and her father. Alexandria flew from the basement straight up through the roof and out of Taylor's range. Tagg ran toward Taylor, choking on his own tongue; Taylor's father tried to shield her but Tagg kicked him out of the way and slammed her against the table until PRT agents came in and tranquillised her.<ref name=":5" /> 

Tagg and Alexandria both died while Taylor was unconscious.<ref name=":6" />