That was just wrong. Teddy was a perfectly good Villain!

With an irate huff, Teddy tossed her blankets off and stood on the wobbly surface of her mattress. Her bear-paw-print pj’s were a bit of a frumpled mess, even though Teddy didn’t move much in her sleep, and her hair was plastered all over.

First things first, she had to put on a good front. That’s why she reluctantly went to the bathroom and showered, then changed into her everyday clothes. Cargo shorts, a cool T-shirt with the word Bear on it, and her hoodie decorated with an awesome image of a grizzly bear roaring on the front.

Now dressed to intimidate, Teddy moved over to the door and paused just before leaving.

She had people to find.

First, the Boss needed more information on that Homie wannabe, the guy who acted like he was some sort of Villain while only being a mere Dealer. Teddy already didn’t have much respect for him, what with his lukewarm level of Villain and his weird name and the fact that he’d inconvenienced the Boss.

Finding him would be tricky, though, especially since the city was pretty big and she was only the one bear girl.

If only the Boss had more minions . . .

Teddy turned back into the dorm and rushed over to the Boss’s laptop. Opening it up and typing in the password: Kitt3nsRb3st (which Teddy had seen the Boss typing in the other day, much to her horror; it was proof that the Boss had given in to the consumerist propaganda about the so-called glories of the feline as opposed to the far superior bear).

She paused when she found the search engine browser thing. Her first search “Where is alley lactate?” didn’t help any, especially since autocorrect was trying to push some sort of milk-based conspiracy at her.

Her subsequent searches didn’t help all that much until she landed on one in particular. A thread called “I’m Alea Iacta, Eauclaire’s newest ne’er-do-well. AMA!”

Clicking on that showed her an entire thread of people mocking Alea Iacta, which while kind of funny, was also a bit rude. He was one of the Boss’s minions after all.

It was only after searching through the entire thing that she noticed an interesting exchange.

User/Material-Sword

9 points Two days ago

> So Alea Iacta, you got any hobbies other than being a so-called ne’er-do-well? You know, something you could do that wouldn’t be wasting everyone’s time?

1 Reply:

> User/Alea_Iacta_bEst

> −13 points Two days ago

> Why yes, good sir! I happen to have a penchant for the theatrical!

The rest of that comment thread was all about making him look like an idiot, which Teddy thought was quite amusing. That one hint stuck with her though.