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“No,” the Enigma answered. “It’s Sam Griffin.”

“Why would Sam Griffin be here?” Tania asked as she looked out the window.

“He probably followed us here,” Dafoanairi said, “as we were going along the ground.””

“I can think of one reason,” Tania said.

‘That she’s guessing that either of us is Sandi,’ Dafoanairi thought. ‘It was going to happen sooner or later.’

“That’s probably not it,” the Enigma responded, although her voice wavered a bit.

“We’ll let’s see what he’s up to,” Tania said.


Sam saw Sandi and Daria as their vigilante alter egos come down from the roof with Tania. “You’re recruiting Tania?” he asked.

“No,” Dafoanairi answered. “She’s an ally.”

“I don’t want to be a vigilante,” Tania said. “I just investigate with them sometimes.”

“Sounds like you’re into it,” Sam said.

“I’m not into it. If I was, I would have been wearing a disguise on the roof as well,” Tania said.

“She isn’t a seventh vigilante,” the Enigma said.

“Oh yeah, the Violet Force is the sixth,” Sam murmured, barely remembering to use his mother’s moniker.

“Why are you here?” Dafoanairi asked.

“I wanted to ask something,” Sam answered.

“What about?” Dafoanairi asked.

“What’s going on. The middle school has the favorite animal fad too,” Sam replied.

“Is that all?” the Enigma responded in an irritated tone.

“My sister didn’t help much,” Sam said.


‘I didn’t,’ the Enigma thought. ‘I was still being selfish. I’m still ‘Linda’s mini me’ in that respect.’

“I’m sure she’ll make it up somehow,” Dafoanairi said with a quick glance in the Enigma’s direction.

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Brittany was doing her homework, going over a problem she and Daria had talked about at the tutoring session, when she heard an email notification on her laptop.

“Oh, Andrea sent something,” she murmured before reading it.

She then forwarded it to Quinn, adding I think we need to talk about this tonight.

Quinn soon responded. Can you be at the Bridge in half an hour, given what Jodie told you today?

Brittany twirled a pigtail as she thought about it. She could pull it off. I’ll be there.


SpiderGirl slipped out of the house via one of the rear attic windows a few minutes later. She decided that she could patrol for a short time before meeting Ninja Talon at the Bridge.

She averted a few muggings before arriving at the Bridge to find that Brittany wasn’t there yet. ‘She’ll be here soon,’ she thought as she unmasked.


She didn’t have to wait long. Brittany arrived and unmasked a few minutes later. “Hey, Quinn,” Brittany said in her usual playful tone.

“Hey, Brit,” Quinn responded with her usual exuberance.

Brittany took out a map of Lawndale. “Landon Engineering is larger than I thought, but I found the location of the warehouse.”

Quinn looked at the map, which also showed the locations of other Landon Engineering properties. “I suppose that’s one reason why Osborn wants to take it over.”

“I agree. But we need to be cautious, given the agents.”

“I wouldn’t put it past Osborn to have agents present around there, but they wouldn’t be there all the time.”

“That’s true, but they may be there tonight,” Brittany argued.

“Then we’ll approach along the ground. They won’t expect that.”

“The streets or the alleys?”

“The alleys,” Quinn decided. “Less open.”

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