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Gestation 1.5 is the fifth chapter of [[Gestation]]. In it, Taylor Hebert manages to blind and then evade Lung until the Undersiders arrive. | |||
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[[Lung]] leaps from the street to the side of the building that Taylor is on. He ascends by burying his clawed fingertips into the building’s exterior. [[Taylor]] waits for him at the edge of the roof near the fire escape, knowing that she can't outrun him and that a retreat down the fire escape would be too slow. She looks in her inventory for something useful: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EpiPens Epipens] and a pouch of chalk dust are potentially more dangerous than useful. She settles on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_spray pepper spray], a gift from her dad for her self-defense when on her morning runs. | [[Lung]] leaps from the street to the side of the building that Taylor is on. He ascends by burying his clawed fingertips into the building’s exterior. [[Taylor]] waits for him at the edge of the roof near the fire escape, knowing that she can't outrun him and that a retreat down the fire escape would be too slow. She looks in her inventory for something useful: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EpiPens Epipens] and a pouch of chalk dust are potentially more dangerous than useful. She settles on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_spray pepper spray], a gift from her dad for her self-defense when on her morning runs. | ||
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==Characters== | ==Characters== | ||
===[[Solo Heroes]]=== | ===[[Solo Heroes]]=== | ||
*[[ | *[[Taylor Hebert]] | ||
===[[Azn Bad Boys]]=== | ===[[Azn Bad Boys]]=== | ||
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Gestation 1.5 is the fifth chapter of Gestation. In it, Taylor Hebert manages to blind and then evade Lung until the Undersiders arrive.
Synopsis
Lung leaps from the street to the side of the building that Taylor is on. He ascends by burying his clawed fingertips into the building’s exterior. Taylor waits for him at the edge of the roof near the fire escape, knowing that she can't outrun him and that a retreat down the fire escape would be too slow. She looks in her inventory for something useful: Epipens and a pouch of chalk dust are potentially more dangerous than useful. She settles on the pepper spray, a gift from her dad for her self-defense when on her morning runs.
Taylor crouches to make herself a smaller target and prepares to fire. Lung, still on fire, shows up at the edge of the roof. She aims for the one eye that he had open and misses, but her second shot is on target. He feels the effects but doesn't fall, and manages to haul himself over the edge of the roof.
Taylor has nothing useful left and knows that striking Lung with a hand or foot would hurt her more than it hurts him, so she bolts for the fire escape. Lung strikes her down with a wave of fire, and she is sent sprawling. Unable to move or attack without alerting him to her location, watching as he swiftly recovers from the pepper spray, she braces herself for the inevitable. She's saved when a massive animal the size of a van, hit Lung putting him in his knees. The ensuing brawl sees the creature and Lung falling from the edge of the roof.
Two more creatures similar to the first one arrive to the rooftop, each with a pair of riders, two girls and two guys. They dismount and introduce themselves: Grue, Tattletale, Bitch (that the good guys and media call Hellhound) and Regent. They reveal that when they hear that Lung plan on attack them that night they decided to meet him halfway, but they found only Oni Lee, Lung's Lieutenant, and half dozen members of the Azn Bad Boys. The fight was short and Oni Lee retreated.
Lung suffers in the ensuing fight against Bitch's creatures, which are revealed to be dogs, half blind and suffering from the insect venom, he winds up losing. Tattletale informs everyone present that a cape is coming, Bitch summons her dogs and they get mounted. Grue offers Taylor a ride, but she refuses, and the group departs.
In the wake of all this, processing the information the group had just shared, Taylor realises that these teenaged villains were the "kids" that Lung was talking about killing.
Characters
Solo Heroes
Azn Bad Boys
The Undersiders
Bitch's Dogs
Notes
- Tattletale shares her own version of these events in the last chapter of the Extermination arc. It's there that she reveals that Lung planed to use his pyrokinesis to torch the district until he forced the Undersiders out of hiding (or until panicked locals did).
- She also reveals that she knew Taylor was a hero the entire time.
- This is the introduction of the Undersiders.