Trick of the Light
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"It's not dumb," Matt said, grin fading, eyes turning somber and intent. "Don't you get it? Most heroes and villains pick their own names, but me? Dixie? Fortune and Scones? The G.O.D. named us. Made up our stories, painted us as the worst of the worst. They're trying to take away everything they can because we're a threat."
"And now you've done put the fear of god in one of their most powerful, making the rest of them afraid that soon they'll start hearing time ticking away, too. You ain't just a threat," Dixie said. "You got them running scared. They overlooked the little guys, like they always do, and now…"
"Now time is counting down, and their days are numbered, and they know it," Matt said. "They know it so much they've acknowledged it. They consider the rest of us pests, but you're a real super villain to them."
Karl swallowed the hysterical laughter that wanted out. He was going to have to stop freaking out if he was going to be a super villain. "I don't—I don't even have any powers."
"Neither does Scones, and that's why they hate him," Matt replied.
Karl touched his tongue to his upper lip, fingers sliding down to his pocket, where the silver pocket watch still rested. "Countdown," he repeated. "So be it."
End
Anti-Heroes will continue in Turncoat
Dixie is a man adrift, picking away at the evildoings of the Grand Order of Defenders and the DeVine Corporation wherever he's able. But none of it is what he really wants, and what he wants is out of reach.
Then a notorious thief crosses his path, a man with abilities that might make all the difference. With his help, Dixie can at long last return to face the people that destroyed his whole world and return that destruction tenfold.
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