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Jump 201: The Pretender

Location: Blue Cove, Delaware
Age: 35
Identity: [+100] Drop-In

[Free]      I Know A Guy
[50/1100]   Vanish
[250/1100]  Computer Genius
[650/1100]  He Defends The Weak And Abused
[Free]      DSA Player
[950/1100]  Research Notes
[1050/1100] Private DSA Collection
[1100/1100] Co-Workers: Louise

A decade working with Louise - or rather, under her, as her familiar - was an amusing experience. She had a highly competent familiar who could not only tutor her in several magic styles that were completely foreign to her world, but also an absolutely hilariously massive dragon on command. One that, when faced with a battlefield of soldiers, merely had to shift into draconic form and be visible for the army to become demoralized. And for their spells to have absolutely no effect on said familiar, causing them to rout.

Her world willingly becoming a part of my holdings was not a particular surprise; however, her willingness to reverse our relationship, to follow at my side to worlds beyond her own, was. And so we found ourselves in a world very similar to the one I'd come from in the first place. One where she found herself seemingly thrown in the deep end as someone with a mind that eclipsed the common person, that could let her become hypercompetent herself.

Initially, she was more annoyed than anything - her sudden jump in mental capacity had her reexamining virtually every aspect of her life, and it was not surprising that she found plenty to be self-critical about. But nonetheless, once she got over that she instead focused on the world as it was. And found me shadowing her, backing her up, showing her the ropes. She insisted she didn't need the help; I insisted it was there whether it was needed or not. And so it went.

There was another Pretender out there in the open beside herself; she may have confounded the Centre's pursuit of him in minor ways at times, but she was much more focused on the handling of the Centre itself. Or rather, its destruction. There were of course a thousand ways she could have destroyed it, but she found a bit of inspiration from her counterpart. Hoist them by their own petard, make them admit to their wrongdoings.

Manipulating circumstances so that a pair of FBI agents are present while a high ranking member of the Centre tells a senator altogether too much might not have been easy, but it was definitely something that put a smile on her face. Moreso when the entire investigation later got leaked to the media and was spun as human traffickers deluded enough to think that they were making superhumans. Whose greatest ability was, according to a 60 Minutes episode, being rather good at chess and tabletop games.

Perhaps it wasn't entirely accurate, but it certainly led to a very long prison term for a lot of people. And a very miserable stay in some grungy international prisons for the ones who tried to flee overseas, only to find themselves in possession of some very bad things - and the State Department refused to have anything to do with them. Dr. Raines in particular had a rather bad time in a Turkish prison.

And everyone who wasn't a complete monster lived happily ever after.