Sleeper was reasonably sure he’d been spotted. His first instinct was to rip the throat out of whichever stupid supervillain had blown his carefully-fostered stealth with that trap, but then Night Nurse would give him a look when he got back to the clinic, and Daredevil would judge, and while Sleeper was adamant that he didn’t need either of them they were useful, and if not friends then at least friendly, and the same mental calculations that had determined that Tel-Kar was more useful alive than dead despite his attempted crimes justifying the latter also determined that it wasn’t worth burning those bridges, at least not yet.

Also, there were still hostages to escort out, hostages which some braindead supervillain had idiotically decided it was perfectly acceptable to blow to bits if, for example, one of the henchmen had been clumsy with the ropes.

But Mysterio had just given him a wonderful gift in the form of a chemical reaction generating lots of smoke. Sleeper was perfectly pleased to commandeer that, and used his chemokinesis to tweak the reaction so that the smoke cleared around the two supervillains (Sleeper was giving Kaine the benefit of the doubt – certainly Electro seemed to think he was an enemy) and hid the hostages from view.

“Hold hands, move quietly and follow my voice.” He started shepherding them to the most accessible unguarded exit.

Or tried to, anyway. “Why are you not moving?!”

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My thought was they’re just too terrified to move with the fighting being basically on top of them, but I don’t think I’m allowed to control the hostages’ reaction.

Physical Stress: D8
Plot Points: 3
Assets: None