[M&M 3e] Defying the Future IC

[Quellian-dyrae]

"Once you take down a League member, they'll stay down."

...You know, it was weird. Up until this point, Lily hadn't really been considering the prospect of actually taking down a League member. That seemed strange to her in retrospect, but on reflection it was true. She had become Floral to protect her town. No, that wasn't even quite correct. She had done it because she was scared of what might happen to her siblings and wanted to try to help keep them safe. Not that they had...accepted her help. So then she had gone out as Floral on her own and...what? Tried to prove herself? Tried to stop the bad guys before they could threaten her siblings? Tried to be a hero because her pride had been smarting and that felt like the correct response?

Protecting the town was nonetheless worth doing. Lily didn't regret her choices. But after what Manchineel had done to her, how easy it had been for her to just...warp the bodies of Lily and her coworkers however she saw fit, how little they could do to stop her... If you had asked her who she was fighting, she would have told you the League of the Future. But the idea of actually fighting the actual League, of making a real effort to achieve a real victory...it wasn't that she had considered it and deemed it impossible. It had just seemed so far beyond what her dinky little flower powers, scienced beyond all reason or no, could possibly be capable of that it hadn't even really entered her mind at all, on the object level.

But now...now she was working with other Heroes. Now they had support from the Watcher.

Now it was time to consider how to accomplish the actual goal.

Lily let out a breath, and let go of her anger and resentment towards the Watcher along with it. The feelings weren't gone. It would take more than this for Lily to be in the state where she could really forgive him. But for the time being those feelings weren't productive. The Watcher was, if not an ally, then at least a resource. If they were going to defeat the League, they would need to make full use of him.

So, what did they need to know?

She considered and rejected information about the Watcher's future. That future had been derived of different present conditions. Information about it was fundamentally a curiosity. What they needed to know...

"Capabilities. Force counts. Lairs, and defenses thereon. Plans. Goals. Weaknesses. Each member of the League is personally powerful, and has minions to support them. What we need to know is as much as we can about them."