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Gestation 1.3
Date posted 18 June 2011
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Gestation 1.3 is the third chapter of Gestation. Unnamed hero-girl’s first night in costume, looking for trouble and finding the Azn Bad Boys. She overhears their leader, Lung, ordering them to get ready to kill kids.

Plot[]

Taylor heads out on her first night in costume, a little after midnight on Sunday. Though it was still incomplete, she had prepared her costume as much as she could before her deadline. She bought temporary pieces for her costume such as straps and lenses for her mask and a belt, and reserved the limited armor paneling she had on hand to protect essential areas such as her spine, face, stomach, and joints. Costume was dyed and painted black and grey with only the yellow tint of the mask's lenses contrasting against them. The mask offered no protection at the back of her head, letting her hair flow free, and it's armor paneling, fashioned to imitate insect mandibles and protect her jaw, had at least fulfilled the theme of an bug-themed cape on an otherwise unfinished costume.

Taylor looks to the poverty-stricken Docks to begin her cape career. Contrasting sharply with the tourist-friendly Boardwalk's wooden walkways, vista points of the ocean, and high-end clothes boutiques and cafe restaurants, the Docks was reputable for being a hotspot for gang activity and home to vagrants, squatters, and prostitutes. The location's decline is faulted on the Brockton Bay's shipping industry going under, and the city's more wealthy residents directing the Bay's resources to other sectors like technology and banking. The people who had once worked within the Docks' warehouses and aboard the ships were essentially left behind and destitute in the face of this change, faced with turning to illicit activities as opposed to leaving the city or scraping up what little work they could manage if they stayed.

All these factors would eventually culminate in the boom in the Brockton Bay's villain population, with prospects for illegal activities becoming much more lucrative and a sizable pool of potential henchmen to draw from. After the heroes took notice of this and established a presence within the city, they became somewhat equal to the villains numerically, causing Brockton Bay to have a high cape population (which Taylor surmises as at least being within the top ten highest in the country).

Both Danny and Annette had warned Taylor to stick to the Boardwalk and away from the Docks while growing up, and Taylor had adhered to that advice up until this night, as the Docks were a promising place to seek out trouble as a cape. Taylor avoids being spotted while traveling in the Docks, minding the steep decline of her surroundings and denizens as she enters the area.

Taylor's attention is then drawn to a collection of Asian gangsters gathering outside a store. She recognizes them quickly Azn Bad Boys (ABB) through the red and green the gang took as their colors. She then spots himself, their leader. A little over six feet tall and towering most of his henchmen, he wore an ornate metal mask and was shirtless despite the chill, the latter trait showing off sprawling tattoos that covered his body from the neck down, and all depicted dragons from Eastern mythology.

Taylor recognizes him quickly as Lung, and is wary of the idea of crossing paths with him. Taylor knew of Lung's reputation as a very powerful villain capable of fighting entire teams of heroes and winning. She previously scrounged up what she could about Lung online, knowing that he's a pyrokinetic who could heal rapidly and grew stronger, tougher, and bigger the longer he fought, with armor plating later growing on his skin and blades at his fingertips. Even then, Taylor knew that there were no guarantees that the information was accurate enough for her to safely rely on it. She also makes note of ABB's other cape, Oni Lee, a teleporter that can also leave body doubles of himself. She was mostly certain Oni Lee wasn't present among Lung's group, but made a note to be on the look out for him.

Taylor moves to find a safer vantage point to listen in. She climbs a fire escape and crosses the rooftop until she is directly above them, and listens in. In a strongly accented voice, Lung snarls his orders to his people, telling them find "the children" and shoot them, and even to shoot them twice to make sure they're dead, much to Taylor's horror.

Major Events[]

  • Taylor's deadline to start her cape career arrives and she decides to begin at the Docks.
  • Background on the Brockton Bay's history and locations within the city, such as the Docks and the Boardwalk.
  • Taylor spots a group ABB gangsters led by Lung, a powerful supervillain, and learns of their plans to commit murder.

Characters[]

Villains Civilians
Azn Bad Boys
Brockton Bay

Trivia[]

  • A good portion of the chapter provides information on Brockton Bay and its history; the collapsed industry and how it was briefly run by supervillains who wanted to capitalize on the wealth of the higher-end districts and the number of unemployed who would be willing to be henchmen and mooks.
  • Taylor Hebert leaves with an unfinished costume in this chapter and it remains unfinished until it's replaced with a new costume later.[1]
    • Most notable is the opening on the back of her head that lets her hair out.
  • This chapter was adapted into a comic.

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Queen 18.118.218.x18.318.418.y18.518.618.z18.718.818.f18
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Extinction 27.127.227.327.427.527.x27.y
Cockroaches 28.128.228.328.428.528.628.x
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