A superspeed villain who awakens during a game-server battle royale. Monday explains that his world hosts deathmatches and escorts him out through a portal.
Victor exits an alarmed cell, joins four stronger-looking players and discovers Laughtrack outruns his own superspeed. He answers34, learns they are practicing on a deathmatch server and cannot remember before yesterday despite this being their fifth game today. He accepts Monday's portal for further explanation.
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Other source editionExistential Crisis. Laughing Matter.Source date: 2023-02-14Original writing prompt[WP] You are a Metahuman criminal caught by the Superhero and placed in containment. But then something happens that reduces every living thing to ash leaving only the Villains in containment. And now its automatic systems release you all onto a barren world, the last and Worst of Humanity.Original prompt source ↗
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Victor meets a much faster Laughtrack, blurts34 and learns from Monday that his world is a deathmatch server with NPCs. His memory of yesterday's capture fails against their fifth game today; he enters her portal.
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