Wild and Crazy in Mexico City

So, Ace and I went to Mexico City to try and find Carlos. We started by visiting his family, but they had kicked him out. After talking for a bit, we decided to try the nearest church. The Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral is a beautiful church. They were having a service when we arrived, but I could detect at least one other nova nearby, so I decided to go in while Ace kept a watch on the outside.

I quietly walked through the church, trying to find out missing nova. Turned out the one I was picking up was a tall, rather good looking young man, surrounded by several mitoids. I tried to surreptitiously take a picture of him for facial recognition, but he noticed. After the service, he approached me, and introduced himself as the Feathered Serpent. He was...quite charismatic, but it was probably all a front anyway. (Turns out he was a Terat!) I asked him if he might be able to give me a hand in locating Carlos, and he offered to take me on a tour of the cathedral's "secrets" at midnight. We parted ways.

Shortly after Feathered Serpent left, I noticed another nova below the cathedral, in what must have been the catacombs. I pointed Ace in the right direction, and he told me it was Carlos, but he was in the tunnel with a bunch of snakes. Great - if I shut him down, it would make him lose control of the snakes. We talked it over for a bit, and decide Ace would try and work his way down to Carlos, while I kept an eye on things from above.

As Ace got close to Carlos, I began to pick up another Nova coming towards them. Ace had said he could still hear me, so I him what I was picking up, and to let me know if he wanted me to shut the newcomer down. Shortly after that, my radio began to pick up something, and I over heard him talking to someone else and signalling me to go. So I went big, and shut her down.

Maybe a minute afterwards, I picked up another nova headed towards them. Feathered Serpent. I warned Ace, and told him they needed to get out of there. Suddenly, he ran towards them, and I managed to move my efforts to dorming down him, and got him for a little bit. Carlos teleported away, but Ace managed to follow close behind. However, there was a wall between him and Carlos, and Feathered Serpent was closing in. Ace did another one of those super fast runs, and came and got me, then brought me to back to the wall, where we talked Carlos into taking us away from there so we could talk.

Carlos teleported us to his favorite restaurant, luckily back in DC. We talked over burgers. Carlos really felt his powers might go out of control, and after I offered to keep them under control when he wanted, he agreed to go to Utopia. He's a good kid, just needs some help getting himself under control. I can understand that. It was tough for me too at first. I gave him my cell number in case he needed any help.

Something weird about the whole thing - I've noticed that Ace is definately having some weird interaction with my ability to sense novas. Sometimes he's there, sometimes he's not, sometimes twice...need to look into that.

Whew - no more typing for now. Next, on Tracer's attempt to process - Bobby!