Butcher's Bill 1.1

Butcher had been seated, cleaning her enormous gun. She made it halfway to her feet before my insects swarmed her. For a few split seconds, the black and yellow insects crawled over her body, doing their best to focus stingers in sensitive locations, where her impervious skin was thinnest. Eyeballs and eyelids. Ear canals. The inside of the nose. The tongue and throat. Then, without even taking the time to put on her mask, she disappeared, and a cloud of flame blossomed on the roof of the building.

It was surprising, to see Butcher come out into the open so soon. Tattletale had briefed us on the Teeth's tactics, and their normal mode of operation was to form into lines of battle while members like Butcher and Animos attacked from behind cover. Still, the possibility of Butcher acting aggressively was nothing that we hadn't prepared for. Citrine shouted to the other Ambassadors, and Jacklight, Codex, and Ligeia opened fire, jets of water mixing with orbs of light and a ghostly glow in a rush of metahuman power towards Butcher's location. The geyser threw Butcher into the air, only for her to be caught in the orbit of one of the orbs and slammed back down, through the roof of the building.

I grinned savagely, and sent my swarm after Butcher again. Between the powers of Butchers Three and Six, Butcher had the ability to sense danger approaching and to teleport out of its way, but it seemed that ability had some sort of limit on how quickly it could be used, or Butcher would have dodged the blows.