Her copies can act on their own

Before DeeCee could say anything, Bakuda’s head twitched and she shifted her weight around, and in the distance, there was a sonorous boom that jolted me, the real me, out of my concentration. I whirled around towards the source of the noise, and there, far off towards the center of downtown, I could see a black haze rising into the night sky.

Bakuda had set off another bomb.

How, I didn’t know. I hadn’t seen her press a switch or anything, so for all I knew, she had some kind of futuristic interface wired into her goggles or something. Hell, maybe she’d rigged it to go off at this time anyway, regardless of whether or not I showed up. A woman like Bakuda — a crazy bitch, I thought in the privacy of my own head — might have done it just because she could.

I felt my hands curl into fists. All the more reason why I needed to stop her.

“— do that?!” DeeCee was demanding when I focused back on her. “I’m here! I came, just like you said!”