Another Sewer Another Slosh Fest

It’s been a few days since my escape from the IERA prison. I was afraid that I had somehow burned bridges with Level 37.
 
The usual op drop, short and to the point. Retrieve lost hollow fragments in the sewer. I am told that I won’t be alone on this one. That’s good. It’s been getting more and more difficult to take on these LFER’s here in New York. RBC and Claws are a tough pair. They ‘work’ together but don’t, so it’s been a bit easier to defeat them, as I’m able to take them on one-on-one.
 
The sent Maven to help me tonight. She is scary, I never know what she’s going to look like. That shape shifting and taking on different bodies is really weird and unnerving.
 
We start into the sewer when I hear RBC scream at something. I tell Maven that we have company, and I head in the direction that I think the yell came from.
 
As I’m turning the corner, something almost latches onto me, well it would have if I had been in phase with the tunnels. Ugly thing. I’m not sure what it was before, but it looks like some of the creatures that I’ve seen from other mutations. Some sort of power leak into this world that seems to be causing these things.
 
I can hear something else down another corridor, but that’s a problem for later. I see a new super at the end of the section I’m in. I change the gravity around where he is and I tell him to bug out and he does, or so I thought.
 
Something leaps out of the muck and jumps right where the guy was… Is guy the right name? It looked like it was some sort of merman. I thought they was just old fairy tale.
 
Anyway, I shake my head, and something snaps in the back of my mind, there was some sort of song that I was hearing then it got all messed up, and the guy appeared right where he was. Ok. That is not good.
 
I fly at him and get as dense as I can. He moves funny just as I’m about to slam into him, and I have to pull up short or the wall will stop me. It was a close thing.
 
Merman disappears from where he is and appears down the hall. About this time, the giant cricket, with a mouth full of teeth clamps onto my leg. I grab and throw the thing at Merman. It hits and splatters nicely.
 
There’s that song again, and it’s making me tired. Different than when I was trying to grab those energy fragments.
 
Out of the corner of my eye, I see RBC moving down the hallway behind me. I drop the gravity field and move over to beat on Merman some more. I have a feeling that he is behind the music that keeps messing with me.
 
He disappears into a small puddle of water that wasn’t there before and is now behind me. I hear RBC making a break for it and as I turn, there is suddenly a wall of water between me and Merman. I shift my density around and I make straight for where RBC is heading to stop her. Just as I’m about to reach out and grab her, there is music in the back of my mind, and RBC disappears from my sight. She’s gone invisible before, but the crate went with her this time.
 
I can hear Maven screeching her mating call, or is that her dinner bell, back behind me, either way it grates on the nerves. I try to take Merman out because I’m tired of this music in the back of my mind. I hit him again but didn’t succeed in removing him from the equation.
 
Claws is trying to make her escape, so I fly over towards her and try to stop her. I hit her solidly, but she didn’t drop to the ground. I can see those little ‘cartoon’ stars over her head when suddenly, it feels like I’ve just woken up in my room. I know everything has happened, but I’m not there anymore, like I just woke from a dream.
 
I shake my head, I know that I didn’t just dream all of that, and just like that, I’m back in the sewer, looking at swaying Claws. Her eyes clear and she takes a swipe at me. Her claws are sharp, but not as sharp as they were a couple of days ago when we fought in the park.
 
The cricket things wake up and start going after Merman as I turn and try to chase Claws down, but she’s just a bit too fast for me.
 
I return to one of the safe houses, content in the knowledge that Maven failed too.
 
I’m not sure what I can do to make up for these failures. I have to support my gang, my family since my parents died. I was on the street thanks to IERA, and LFER didn’t do anything to help either. My people rely on me to bring in food and money. I’ve utterly failed them these last two missions.
 
One thing is for sure, No more Mr. Nice guy. I see any one of those three again, I don’t care where, I’m doing my best to take them out, … permanently and with extreme prejudice…