“Tress and Antares are fast. The first responder types should follow them. Everyone else, with me,” Capricorn gave the order. “If you have questions, ask us, or call our phones.”

I was in the air a moment later, heading toward the last known location. I gave Fume Hood a nod in passing. Sveta and I had four people with us—two more who were able to get on a motorcycle or get in a vehicle within a few seconds of getting the go-ahead. The engines were already running, and they peeled out.

It became clear that our fastest moving members of the group were pulling away from the members at the rear. I turned around in the air, looking for Sveta, and I found her riding the roof of the rusted, post-apocalypse sedan that one cape had climbed into.

I gestured, and she threw out a hand, which I had to fly over to intercept and catch. She pulled herself to me, which made flying momentarily difficult, slowing the pull somewhat as she drew near.

“I’ll take the lead group, you take the stragglers?” I asked. “I go left, circle around to eleven o’clock. You go right, two or three o’clock. Remember Capricorn will be coming in for their six like a battering ram.”

“I go left,” she said. “Look. Trees, taller buildings. That’s my kind of terrain.”

I nodded once, confirming.

She let go of me and pulled away with a force that was almost as intense as her arrival had been.

Foxtrot was one of the two in the lead. She didn’t teleport, exactly, but as I flew, I could see glimpses of her off to the side, below me, just ahead of me.

I’d researched her, after she had ended up being a bit of a problem. Foxtrot and Houndstooth had dated for a bit—and potentially still were. It had been a thing early and then the team had grown and that faded into the background. It said something that she’d, despite the concerns of the girlfriend being promoted, despite the fact she had no apparent record or history of a hero until about a year ago… she’d settled into a weird pseudo-leadership position, leading patrols a lot of the time.

For the moment, she was my ally in going up against the Trial & Error team. I had to consider her power; on paper it was ‘harassment repositioning’.