Disclaimer: I don't own the Worm Serial. I blame Godogma for a decent part of it as he wrote most (nearly all) of Charles' lines. I know it's been a long time since I've updated anything on this site. I could state reasons and such but mostly I was posting on other sites. This is a result of seeing the Worms CYYA images... that said it's not a choose your own adventure fic.

Mist grumbled as he sat down at his computer after an annoying half day at work and checked his email. "Stupid idiots." He scowled as he noticed an unfamiliar email had gotten through his spam filter. "Must be a review or something." He opened the email and looked it over. "Worm CYOA? That's weird. At least it's not Crazypants with more stupid suggestions."

He muttered as he looked the page over of powers and challenge requirements, 'Okay, that's campy as hell but I was going to write a self insert at some point anyways. Maybe this will be a good source of ideas.' He opened a notebook file and looked over the email. 'Let's see… Worldbreaker looks amusing but yeah no, I'd get hit with newspapers for that crap. Easy looks amusing but I'd get laughed at… Standard still offers me 6 points to play with and trouble only really comes looking based on what I do. Powers are 2 points each and I really only need to keep my character alive which is covered by taking the Alexandria package and oh… I'm so getting hit with a newspaper for this but Power Manipulation means never having to say you're sorry.'

He smiled as he looked over the powers, 'I don't need to have a damned psychic hack for a character, I don't need to be Eidolon, I mean seriously having powers on demand takes the fun out of things…' He blinked as he saw the Shaper Power which was an upgraded version of Panacea and Nilbog smashed together in some unholy combination of broken. 'Totally broken… screw it, if I'm going to write a fix it Worm story then I might as well give the character the ability to fix things and not get ganked by shit.' He flipped over to the perks section, "One point each…" He smiled as he looked over the Blank perk that made him immune to scrying and precogs. 'That should stop Contessa and Cauldron from screwing with me.' He wrote that perk down then added the Invictus perk that should keep him from being mind controlled.'

Mist coughed as he read the description on Shattered Limiter and realized that it would give him 10 charges a day for his power boosting power rather than the 5 charges it normally granted. Even ignoring the fact that it shortened the growth time of powers from a year to six months it was still broken as hell. "That's way too useful not to take even if it's stupid broken."

Mist laughed as he looked at the flaws section. 'Slaughterhouse 9 is calling… it's 4 points and my character would be hunting them down anyways… screw it.' He wrote the flaw down then looked over the rest. 'Marked, the gangs hate you… hell they're going to hate my character within a couple of days anyways, I might as well get points for it.' He wrote down, E88, ABB and Merchants for the groups that hated him. 'Never had any use for Nazi trash or Asians that couldn't speak English anyways and drug dealers annoy me.'

He looked at the starting options again, 'Being a monster that only comes out every couple of months doesn't sound fun, reincarnated as someone else doesn't sound all that amusing which means I'll just go with a self insert. If I'm doing that then I should grab a secret lair to get past the part where my SI is basically broke.' He looked over some of the other flaws before deciding that there wasn't anything he really wanted as he still had three points. He looked at the powers page again and picked Psychokinetic as his last power. 'That gives me one more point… none of the rest of the perks are even close to things I'm good at. I mean I could change that but then what's the point of writing an SI.'

He looked over the list of companions the email offered, the Tinker looked amusing but not enough to worry about. 'One point for a friend that has one third as many points as I do, that actually sounds workable. I can always fill out the details later.'

Name: Mist Shadows

Start: Self Insert

Difficulty: Standard

Powers: Alexandria Package, Shaper, Power Manipulator, Psychokinetic

Perks: Blank, Secret Lair, Shattered Limiter, Invictus, Friend

Flaws: Slaughter House is calling, Marked: Merchants, ABB, EBB

Mist looked over his reply then sent it off. He frowned as the power went off and his computer turned off plunging his room into darkness. "Shit." He frowned as he realized that there should still be light coming through the two windows, "What the hell?"

A vaguely familiar sleepy voice called out, "Keep it down." from across the room.

Mist jumped and banged his head on the ceiling then fell back to the ground. "That hurt…" he trailed off as he realized that it really hadn't hurt. He pulled his attention back to the fact that there was someone else in his house. "Who are you?"

The girl yawned as she woke the rest of the way up, "How long was I asleep for?"

Mist's brain kicked into gear as he recognized the voice, "Selena?"

"Yeah? Where is everyone?"

Mist blinked as a ball of light appeared over his hand which illuminated the strange and unfamiliar room and the girl on the bed. The ball of light flickered out and died as Mist realized that he had just conjured a ball of light. "Shit…"

"I must still be asleep…"

"I must have hit my head because none of this is making sense…" Mist glanced around the dark room, trying and failing to make any details out.

"Is the game over?"

"Yeah, it was over last night, you crashed out on the couch." Mist frowned slightly as the details of the game escaped him before shaking it off. He blamed the alcohol that Selena had talked him into drinking, never mind the fact that he had work in the morning or that she wasn't twenty one yet. He rubbed the bridge of his nose, "Never drinking again…"

Selena laughed, "You're the one that wanted me to flash you."

"I'm pretty sure I was talking about your character…"

"Details. Can you get the lights?" She blinked as the room's lights turned on. "What the hell?" She looked around in confusion as she realized that they were in a brown tiled room with a metal door, a couch that had seen better days, a rather solid looking desk and an old chair that her friend was sitting in. "If Craig drugged my soda, I'm killing him."

Mist stared at the large titled underground chamber. "One minute I'm sitting down at my computer and the next I'm here…" He trailed off as knowledge of his powers flowed into his head. "Crap…"

"Crap?"

Mist held out his hand and conjured another ball of light. "Yeah… either we're going insane, space aliens kidnapped us, or we somehow got given powers and probably transported to a world that's going to be destroyed in a couple of years."

Selena stared at the glowing ball of light, "Holy shit!"

"Yeah…"

"Wait, what do you mean we might have been transported to a world that's going to end in a couple of years?"

Mist sighed, "Well… I was answering my email and I found a Worm self insert challenge…"

Selena snorted, "Like that could actually happen…" she trailed off as she looked at the glowing ball of light floating over her friend's hand. "Okay… please tell me that you have some type of holographic projector or something…"

"Wish I could, that would be neat." He gestured around the room, "I wish I could tell you that I know someone with a room like this but you know I don't."

"Well technically I don't because you have some college friends that you never mention."

"Most of which I haven't seen in a couple of years."

Selena winced slightly as she pinched herself, "Apparently I'm not asleep…"

Mist glanced over the furniture then over at Selena who was wearing tight black shorts and a green silk shirt which did very little to conceal her figure. He pulled his gaze off his friend's chest and looked down at his dark jeans, his boots and his favorite long-sleeved shirt with a fairy queen on it. 'At least I'm wearing my clothes.' He sighed, "Yeah… we should probably explore."

"Do you have any idea what's actually down here?"

Mist shrugged, "Nope, that's why I want to look around. It's probably safe, I spent points on a secret lair."

"Right because the world is just going to give you a secret lair."

"I got powers didn't I?"

"That's totally not fair by the way."

Mist looked toward the door, "I'm still half expecting this to be some weird dream or trick."

"In that case, let's find some weapons."

"You're rather violent today."

"I got kidnapped and left in a dark room, if this is some sort of joke I'm going to hurt you."

Mist let the ball of light vanish then held up his hands, "Don't look at me."

"Let's just do this before I change my mind." Selena scowled as they headed to the next room..

In the next room laying on a broken down couch with his head leaning back over the side was a too tall for the couch Nordic featured guy with a long beard and a ponytail in a Metallica shirt and black pants.

Selena turned and raised an eyebrow at Mist. "Who the hell is that?"

"Oh, I am so grabbing a newspaper…" came a growl from the guy on the couch after he opened one bleary eye and saw the two people staring down at him. "And what's up with the couch in the dark anyway?"

"Lights?" Mist grinned when the lights came on revealing a large tiled room with several other doors and a set of elevator doors in the far wall.

"Oh you bastard…" the guy groaned… "Newspaper, your nose buddy… just you wait."

"Ah, right… I probably deserve that but…" He grinned as he conjured a ball of fire over his hand, "I'm just not seeing it work out well for you."

"I can find you when you sleep."

"Is someone going to answer me damn it?!" Selena growled.

"Ah right, that's Charles." Mist gestured to Selena, "Charles, Selena."

Charles rolled off the couch and stretched hard, causing nearly every vertebra in his back to pop. "Oh thank god… Pleasure to meet you Selena - hit him with a newspaper; I know somehow that this is all his fault."

"Oh please, like anyone really expects to reply to an email and get dragged off to some gods forsaken world."

"If I am stranded on Earth Bet you are so getting it." Charles glared over at Mist.

"Ah, well… in that case, I should probably let you get back to sleep while I scout to make sure that we're not there…" Mist trailed off with a lack of conviction.

Charles sighed, slapping his hand over his eyes and running it down his face. "Selena, this bastard got us trapped on Worm didn't he?"

"No clue, I was at a Dungeons and Dragons game, I took a nap and I woke up in the other room."

"I had just eaten supper … I took a nap and woke up here, but blaming him seems like the best bet. We were napping; this has to be his fault." Charles replied.

Mist grumbled, "Sure, blame the guy with fantastic magical powers. Okay, I can see the logic there."

Selena asked, "Fantastic magical powers?"

"I'm hoping to hell I don't have a parasitic alien creature connected to my head, that and the email said that I would get powers that weren't shards…"

"If I didn't at least get powers I think I'm going to … it won't be pleasant and I'll let your imagination fill in what I'm gonna do to you." Charles drawled as he kept stretching, trying to get the kinks out from the horrible couch he'd been sleeping on.

Mist shrugged, "I'm less worried about that and more worried about the fact that I might have accidentally caused a group of mass murdering psychopaths fixate on us."

Selena gulped, "You what?!"

"The Slaughterhouse 9? Really?! For fuck's sake…" Charles growled. "I suppose that we at least know how to get rid of lots of the 'untouchable' ones."

"It was worth 4 points, I mean two powers and fuck I didn't think I'd actually have to deal with them. I mean it was supposed to just be a joke email."

"He taunts Murphy a lot in real life too doesn't he?" Charles asked Selena with a raised eyebrow.

Selena glared at Mist. "Yes, yes he does."

"Just be happy I didn't take the Skitter version of this challenge."

Selena asked, "What the hell is the Skitter version?"

Mist muttered, "No points and the Universe hates you."

"Aka I'd have squished him when we got here." Charles rubbed the bridge of his nose.

Mist tried not to smirk as he asked, "Most likely… so who wants superpowers?"

"Me!" Charles replied and grabbed Selena's hand, raising her arm up in the air, so both of them were waving their arms around.

Selena asked, "What's the failure chance? Is it like Myrr?"

"This world sucks balls, it doesn't matter what the failure chance is. People with no powers go splat ALL the time. It's like Murphy has a hard on for them even more than anyone else." Charles replied.

Mist shook his head, "Worse, Myrr has safe places and generally no Endbringers."

Selena sighed, "Those are like Godzilla right?"

"More or less yeah."

"Endbringers are worse than Gojira… At least the giant nuclear lizard fights off other monsters and saves Japan occasionally. Endbringers just fuck shit up." Charles muttered.

"Okay, powers sound like a good idea…"

Mist asked, "If I'm understanding my power correctly I've got 10 upgrade orbs a day that I can use to upgrade powers. I can also steal powers from parahumans and transfer them to other people."

"Okay, Eidolon doesn't need his." Charles replied firmly. "Not sure but I don't think the shadow chick needs hers either."

"I'd have to agree with that, if I get the chance. I'd rather not have more of the Endbringers around."

Selena asked, "What can you give me?"

"Hell if know, pretty much anything in the 4 to 5 range and probably higher if I use more upgrade orbs."

Selena looked over at Charles, "Does that help you? Because it doesn't help me."

Charles chuckled darkly. "It would if I had my laptop; I helped the Boy Wonder over there write a Worm fanfic and made a database of all the powers and who had them… But not really, no."

Mist looked at Selena, "Fuck you." He glared at Charles, "Fuck yourself."

"What's with all the hostility? It's not like I paid a hell of a lot of attention to all the Worm crap, I learned it via osmosis and to help you write. Eidolon is a dickhead, Alexandria is too… Coil is bad… Skitter is an abused girl who needs help… The Wards get fucked over… Armsmaster is a dick with ears… Need I go on?" Charles asked.

"No, it's all good. Hmm, I think some type of durability or regeneration."

Selena raised her hand, "I vote both."

"See, she's got the idea already." Charles grinned. "I vote Czarnian. Well Czarnian minus the whole Gene Simmons from KISS look."

"I might be able to do that. Powers?"

"Durability, super strength, regeneration, speed … you know the basic four color supers' game powers is a good place to start; since we're stuck in Worm, tinker abilities are also a must." Charles chuckled.

Selena giggled, "I think I've already got some of those, either that or the diagrams bouncing around in my head are just weird artistic pictures."

"In theory my friends were supposed to get powers so it's possible that you got the tinker power."

"Nifty!" Selena giggled.

"That and I can sense your powers…" Mist trailed off as he actually focused on Charles and checked his power. "Fucking hacker!"

"Huh?" Charles asked with a raised eyebrow as he felt around in his pockets.

"You're like a ramped up version of Eidolon, it's freaking insane."

"WHAT?! How am I a souped up version of Eidolon?"

"Hell if I know, but yeah… 10 bloody powers at once, I mean what the fuck man? I'm supposed to be the fucking hero here." Mist glared at Charles.

Charles hit the ground, rolling around laughing. "Eidolon gets to pick his powers right?"

"Not sure but you do and it's even worse than that you shithead. Your power will fucking pick useful powers as well."

Charles grinned and continued laughing, stopping to pant for air leaning against Selena's legs and gasping as he continued chortling. "The look on your face…."

Selena tried to control her snickering, "What about me?"

"Overpowered Tinker." Mist forced himself to smile or at least grimace.

Charles reached over and patted Mist's knee consolingly. "Look at it this way, at least we don't have to worry about heavy hitters I can cover that…And hopefully keep your megalomania from getting out of hand."

Selena shook her head, "Good luck with that, you should see him DM."

"I know, I've heard…"

Mist frowned as he considered explaining that he didn't actually have megalomania then decided that it wasn't worth it, "In that case, you've got 10 powers to cover lots and lots of crap so durability first." He held out his hand and conjured a sparkling ball of plasma looking material.

Charles forced himself visibly to sober up and quit laughing, surviving this place took precedence over laughing at Mist. "How do we want to handle this? Reinforce existing powers first or are you going to handle doing durability and the standards first and then I try to fill the slots?"

"I've got 10 a day. I might as well try to shore up some basic problems, durability should get two hits each and flight should get at least one if that works."

Selena shook her head, "Go with telekinesis, that way we can fly and do other things with only one power."

"Good point."

"I'll try and track down Panacea and grab healing abilities. Unlike Eidolon I know just how useful healing is and I'm not a dumbass who wants major challenges for himself." Charles shrugged. "Making the Endbringers because he's a psychotic numbskull…" he trailed off muttering darkly under his breath.

"I passed up on that flaw as well."

Selena glared at Mist, "I would have kicked you." She frowned, "Wait a minute what flaws did you take?"

Mist muttered, "Shit…"

"Knowing him; Enemies out the wazoo…" Charles replied for him.

Mist sighed, "It's not like we weren't going to make them anyways."

"Empire 88?" Charles asked with a raised eyebrow.

"And the Merchants and the ABB. I would have taken other ones but it only let me take 3 points of them."

"Right." Charles shrugged. "I have no problems going after slavers and neo-Nazis… The Asians are douche bags too…"

"I sort of want to steal that adepts power and give Skitter flaming indestructible insects because I think it would be funny."

Selena rolled her eyes, "That brings up another point, are we going to be heroes, rogues or villains?"

"Well, I'm not letting Mist be a villain." Charles replied.

"Probably for the best." Selena smiled.

Mist sighed. "We can rob the villains if we're rogues, yes?"

Selena said, "Only if we can't find the actual owners of the stuff."

"Robbing the bad guys is a traditional way for D&D players to operate; we're all D&D players here." Charles replied.

"Oh good, because I'm fairly sure I only have a hundred dollars to my name." Mist checked his pocket and pulled out a hundred, "Yep."

Charles reached into his pockets and came up with a rumpled 20 dollar bill. "You've got me beat, and I don't even have a pack of smokes or any cigars to my name. Good time to quit I guess."

Selena checked her pocket and pulled out a twenty, a ten, three ones and a handful of change, "Thirty three dollars and thirty three cents. Great, is it sad that I actually have more money than I started with?"

"Someone thinks they're funny I guess." Charles snorted.

Mist tossed the glowing power sphere at Charles. "Yep."

Charles yelped and tried to catch the ball of whatever it was, making sure his hands were in front of his face. "Hey! I don't want my hair on fire!"

The sphere of power sank into Charles and flowed through him, as it granted him increased durability. "Thankfully that didn't set my face on fire…" he trailed off.

Mist grinned, "Let's see…" He conjured another orb and tossed it at Charles. "That should boost you to a six or a seven durability. Which means that you can probably shrug off most arms fire without using one of your slots. Do you want to try telekinesis next?"

"Sure, why not? Then you can buff Selena."

"No problem, I was just making sure it worked first. I mean a pretty lady is a terrible thing to waste." Mist conjured a slightly different colored orb and tossed it to Charles.

"Quite… There are so few sets of perfect breasts in the world, it would be a shame to waste hers." Charles replied, chuckling.

Selena smirked, "That reminds me, we're going to need costumes and more clothes at some point."

Mist conjured a durability orb and tossed it at Selena. "Here."

Selena caught the orb and it vanished into her skin empowering her. "Thanks."

Mist conjured another durability orb and tossed it. "Before we give you telekinesis we should make sure Charles' ability works."

"Sure…" Charles drawled out. "Throw me under the bus…" he chuckled and tried picking himself up with his telekinesis so that he could fly. Amusingly enough he didn't bounce off the ceiling or blast off to the side or play ping pong with the walls.

Selena said, "Sweet, now we just need invisibility and some type of ranged attack."

Mist shrugged, "Or we keep four slots open for other people. There is always tomorrow."

"We don't even know when we are so some of the people you might want to buff might not even be an option for a while." Charles replied.

"It's probably April 8th, 2011 which means that Skitter has a couple of days before her solo debut."

"She's already been traumatized then?" Charles grumbled.

"Probably..."

"Well, fuck…" Charles muttered, running his fingers through his beard.

Selena frowned, "How do we fix that?"

Mist jokingly asked, "Burn the school down?"

"Well, do Panacea's healing powers work on mental trauma if she would actually use them on people's heads?" Charles asked with a raised eyebrow.

Mist shrugged, "She twisted Glory Girl into loving her, I'd rather avoid warping Skitter's mind that much. I know she can fix damage or at least she could if she hadn't been raised by a bitch from hell."

"Didn't Glory Girl's powers twisted Panacea into loving her first?" Charles asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Probably, that's one of those things that's never actually clarified, but most likely."

Charles ran his fingers through his own hair, tugging the hair tie out that kept it in a ponytail. "... Fuck… I need to find a telepath and a healer… or somehow make my own power set with those in. Otherwise Taylor's a mind-job…"

"Selena, do you want to be a telepath? I mean I'm fairly sure I can do that..." He trailed off as he realized what he had just suggested, "Shit, can you forget I mentioned that?"

Selena smirked, "Hell no, I'm willing to go for telepathy as long as it has an off switch."

Mist sighed, "If you don't like it I should be able to deconstruct it."

"Okay, in that case, hell yeah."

"Free warning; guys, even your friends who are guys, pay attention to your body and fantasize. It's guaranteed; so don't get pissed about it." Charles said firmly, "so much for quitting." he muttered.

Selena gestured at her green silk shirt that clung to her body, "No worries."

Mist muttered, "I'm going to regret this." He conjured a glowing ball of light and hit Selena with it.

Selena blinked a couple of times, "Voices… lots of voices. Make them stop!" She smirked, "Nah, we're good."

Mist twitched then mock scowled at Selena, "You're evil."

"Yep." Selena stuck her tongue out at Mist.

"She's a girl, of course she's evil." Charles deadpanned, still working his fingers through his hair. "Heh, gonna have to cut my beard at least. I don't think a ZZ-Top beard will work very well for keeping a secret identity."

Mist shook his head, "Probably not, masks only cover so much. Speaking of masks, should we try the elevator or look for stairs?""

"Mmm… try the stairs first, no cover in an elevator and most of them only have one speed... Besides Murphy may have built them." Charles replied with a grin.

Thankfully it didn't take the group long to find a door that led to a secluded part of the basement of a hotel. Even more fortunate or suspicious depending on your point of view was the set of keys they found in the door that led up to said basement.

"Ominous, most ominous." Charles muttered with a Bill and Ted voice.

Thankfully the hotel seemed to be in a semi reasonable part of town so it wasn't a problem to get out to the street. Sadly for Charles' peace of mind he noticed a Brockton Bay newspaper sitting on an end table.

Charles grumbled… "Brockton Bay… which we already figured…" He snatched it up and examined the news stories.

The news is mostly fluff pieces that try to paint a decent light so they can attract tourists. They're obviously stretching the truth. "Yeah, I'm finding Panacea and getting her powers and going back to smoking… I wonder if I can find Cuban cigars in this town?" Charles muttered as he shook his head.

Mist shrugged, "Probably not, I mean it's supposed to be a grim-dark world after all."

"Then I'll fly to Cuba." Charles muttered. "Then again you're enemies with the Merchants I bet they have some I can steal."

Mist laughed, "Let's find out."

Selena snorted as they walked out of range of a street light, "After we find masks and costumes."

Mist looked at Charles, "Do you have a power for making costumes? I mean I know that we're eventually going to have the tinker make our costumes but until then."

Charles frowned thoughtfully and tried to call up hard light to surround each of them and change their features as well as form a costume for them. He based his on Thor from the Avenger's movie, minus the hammer instead including a bastard sword sheathed over his back.

For Mist he focused and pulled up an image of Beastboy from the Teen Titans.

Turning to Selena he focused and made it look like she was a anthropomorphic cheetah, though he made sure the salient points were covered in fur and didn't show off anything. "Hopefully the hard light stuff will give some extra durability as well." Charles muttered.

Selena laughed as she looked at Mist, "So you turned him green? That works."

Mist snickered, "He turned you into a catgirl."

Selena shrugged, "It's not like it's permanent, right?"

"As far as I know it's not." Charles replied.

Mist muttered as they walked past an alleyway, "Great, okay let's skip the store and hit the Merchants."

A rather pale skinned skinny drugged out looking man leaning against the wall of the alley pointed a gun at Mist with a shaky hand. "Give me your money."

Charles shook his head and chuckled, "Not real smart is he?"

Mist turned and looked at the drug using scumbag, "Yeah, not so much… I mean it's not even close to Halloween."

Selena muttered, "This is what people mean when they say someone wins a Darwin award isn't it?"

"Yup…" Charles chuckled and reached over his back to haul the hard light bastard sword out of its sheath.

The gunman shot Mist.

Mist grumbled as the bullet bounced off his chest, "You were bitching and I got shot, fucking unreasonable flaws."

"That bullet didn't even get past your shirt…" Charles snorted and slapped the gunman upside the head firmly with the flat of the sword.

The man staggered and tried to swap targets to point at Selena or possibly Charles. Either way before he'd managed to actually aim the gun at the lady he found himself gasping for breath with Mist's fist buried in his stomach.

Mist scowled at the Merchant as the man fell to the ground vomiting, "Fucking drug users. You don't point a gun at a lady. I mean seriously, trying to jump capes…"

"He was a candidate for the Darwin awards before he started doing smack is my guess." Charles shrugged and picked up the pistol, examining it curiously before tucking it behind his belt and reaching down to frisk the guy.

Mist gestured and the man's pockets and most of his pants ripped apart leaving the twenty dollars in the guy's pocket mostly untouched. "Let me."

"At least I didn't have to frisk him." Charles shrugged and picked up the money. "We're up one pistol and 20 bucks so far."

"You're welcome to the pistol." Mist sighed, "I should have asked him where the rest of the Merchants are."

"The Tinker can make better ones later I'm sure, but for a backup it works for now." Charles shrugged. "Can you use a pistol Cheetara?" he asked Selena with a grin as he playfully waggled his eyebrows at her.

Selena said, "Better than Mist but that's not saying all that much."

Mist rolled his eyes, "I can hit a target with it at thirty feet."

"I'll hang onto it until I can give you both lessons then." Charles replied.

Mist shrugged, "If it comes down to it I can toss lightning or light people on fire, at least I'm…" He noticed Selena's glare. "I mean I could but that would be wrong."

Charles laughed and grinned at her. "What? These guys have already tried to kill him once."

Selena scowled, "I picked the location of a stash from the idiot's twisted mind." She glared at Mist and Charles, "One of you owes me ice cream by the way." She grumbled and stalked in direction of the docks.

"How about he buys you ice cream and I provide massage services?" Charles chuckled.

"Excellent." She smirked as she put a bounce in her step.

Mist sighed as he followed the cute female telepath. "Any suggestions on how do this?"

Selena asked, "Zip ties?"

"I don't have any."

"Duct tape?" Charles grinned.

Selena smirked. "The corner store should have some."

"Might even have both…" Charles said with a grin, "and the one we don't use to tie people up we'll have for later." he trailed off suggestively with a chuckle.

"That works." Selena replied.

Mist rolled his eyes.