Team-Ups and Crossovers (Wearing the Cape, #6)

by Marion G. Harmon

“The problem with making yourself the sword of justice is knowing when to stop chopping.” Jacky Bouchard, aka Artemis.

“What are we going to do? Something immediate and extreme.”

Recon was being handled, obstacles created, so it was time to be direct.

“Of course we don’t live in the best of all possible worlds. We’re human, we mess up, we could have always done better. Which doesn’t mean that we can’t do better. We can do worse, but we can always do better, too.” Hope Corrigan

“Well, if the point is the journey as much as the destination,

It kept sending me where the action was—rather like a fictional Time Lord’s time-traveling police call box (and if I ever saw that blue box I was absolutely knocking on the door and asking for a ride).

My second snow globe jump had been pretty quiet, at least once I’d finished helping a New York homicide detective and her tag-along writer friend with their investigation (it hadn’t worried me that the writer had figured out I was a superhero—since super-powered types didn’t exist there nobody’d believe him).

I’ve attached the Need More Firepower form.

Or who had access to someone who knew how to make stuff in a machine shop without injuring themselves or others. Sydney wasn’t allowed in the Archon headquarters machine shop.

Behind her she heard Master Chief say, “You know what? I think that might have been the real Halo disguised as a fake Halo.”

Astra followed gamely as Sydney did the best she could to imitate a meth-hopped ferret without assaulting strolling convention-goers with her orb rack.

Score one for Laconic Acceptance of Weird Shit,

Hope’s Laconic Acceptance of Weird Shit was being seriously challenged.

“It is a law of the universe that if a new superhero comes to town, no matter how big the town, he will run into its current protector and there is going to be a misunderstanding ending in a fight. Then they’re going to team up to deal with a situation that neither could have handled alone. It’s one of those karmic laws of superheroing.” Yelena “Polychrome” Batzdorf.

“DON’T DO IT! TRAFFIC ISN’T THAT BAD!”

“As my friend Jacky always says, I have a compulsive need to save anybody, ever.”