The Scarecrow

I was called out apparently. That's something somewhat new for me...

I mean I've called out opponents multiple times, but never really had someone call me out...

It was a pretty nice call out too... I mean would have been more effective if I knew any of the dead people... I think he might have mistakenly thought they worked for me, but I'm fairly sure they were just unfortunate people who lived in the area.

I should explain. So, The Scarecrow called me out by killing people, sticking them up on... Whatever those stick things scarecrows are held up on are called each of them with notes. The notes telling me to meet him. The cops also found these notes, however which is why I generally don't make such gruesome spectacles to send messages. Obviously then the meeting place specified is compromised so... I decided to set up my own meeting place.

Using Sammy to find out where they'd be I showed up with Tiff and Sandy. Sandy still doesn't like killing, but seems to be capable of fighting and Tiff is a natural so it seemed smart to take them. Ryan has his uses, but I don't know if he can fight and Toby is still determined not to be helpful in any way and we've had to keep him locked up to get him not to try and run away.

So, we showed up. I'd brought incendiary weapons since he was a nest and most likely so were the people he might  be with and besides Incendiary weapons work equally well on Timberwolves.

So, we showed up at an area. Unfortunately stealthy and incendiary weaponry don't go hand in hand so, taking out the guy on watch who was indeed a nest alerted everyone else and soon the fight started. The birds were basically useless in a fight against us because they couldn't see us and just like with Oliver most of the nests weren't great at fighting without them and also had to deal with the defense mechanism. Which of course they knew how to deal with, but it's still difficult to keep track of what is essentially an invisible enemy that you merely know is standing near the enemy you can see, especially during the chaos of a fight and one involving bursts of fire and explosions as well.

We made pretty quick work of The Nests we were fighting is what that all boiled down to. Of course the place was now somewhat on fire. Which was... Not great for me. I don't like fire. I'm not terrible with fire. I don't become a frightened mess at the sight of it, it just makes me a bit uncomfortable... The time with Nathan was different because I was also just generally terrified of Nathan and adding in the fact I was again in a burning building is what made me panic.

Anyway... Through the fire and the flames and the charred bodies came The Scarecrow. He was a man wearing a potato sack mask with a face painted on it, carrying a large black bag over his shoulder and wearing overalls over a plaid shirt. His sleeve of the arm carrying the bag was rolled up revealing an armful of scars. He reached into the bag and pulled out a large serrated knife. "So, Sergei you came to se-" he started and I blasted him with fire. He moved very quickly stabbing the knife into his flesh and cutting a large gash from which a large amount of birds rushed out forming a wall to block the fire.

I was impressed.

"Did you just use The Convocation as a shield?"

"Of course. The birds are just a tool. It's not like it harms the convocation and I'm far more useful alive,"

"Wow... This is a little weird actually,"

"What do you mean?"

"Well you've got a mask. You're apparently a psycho killer and you treat the birds like tools... It's like running into my Ex and seeing them with someone who's exactly like me,"

"I am not exactly like you! I'm much better!"

"Oh yeah sure... I mean you might be. You might be drastically different from me, but I bet they don't care. You're just replacement Faceless to them. When you cut yourself to let them out and they come flying out of the holes in your skin I bet they're thinking about me,"

He seemed to get mad at this and tossed the knife at me. The real me. I dodged and then he'd rushed at me, another knife in his hand as birds came streaming out of the hole in his arm now. Sandy and Tiff did a commendable job dealing with the birds. He stabbed at me and I blocked with my flamethrower which his knife punctured. I tossed it at him and he pulled back as I pulled out my machete and lunged. His knife met my machete and he was pushed back, but then the bag slipped from his shoulders as he grabbed a knife with his second hand and swung it at me causing me to jump back.

 He tried to press forward slashing at me, but I managed to catch one of his knives on a machete and tried to catch his wrist with my hand, but I... Somewhat slipped up on that and instead got his knife stabbed into my hand, still... I then rushed forward slamming him into the wall and forcing my machete towards his face as he held it with his knife and tried to pull his knife out of my hand, but I kept it held in my palm, gritting my teeth against the pain.

Then the wall exploded. I was knocked off of my feet as was The Scarecrow. Tiff and Sandy turned their attention to the exploded wall and gunfire suddenly sprayed into the room. Tiff was hit and went down as Sandy dived to the floor. The gunfire stopped as a man walked in. He was wearing a blood red priests robe covered in pictures of eyes and creepy looking mouths. He surveyed the room and then walked over to Tiff who was writhing on the ground, clutching at her gunshot wound. He raised his gun and pointed it to her... The real her and a bunch of other guns. Well the silhouette's of guns appeared in the air around him. He didn't get to fire as I tackled him. The other guns vanished as I hit him and we both toppled to the floor. I got up first, but then felt the icy cold pain as a knife slipped into my back. The Scarecrow was behind me. I dropped to my knees and The man stood up and then something bounced into the room. Then it exploded. It was a flashbang and I heard myself and a number of other people scream then the sound of a fist hitting flesh and lots and lots of gun shots. When the light cleared. The Scarecrow was lying on his side clutching his face and The Priest guy was firing multitudes of guns at a fleeing figure. I figured this might have been a good time to flee as well. I crawled over to Tiff and grabbed hold of her then yelled at Sandy to get back to base before travelling into Coda's domain with Tiff. We reappeared back at base.

I'm fine. The Knife didn't hit anything important, but I can't move very well... So maybe it did hit something important... I don't know... I don't feel paralyzed, I just have trouble making my legs go where I want them too...

Tiff was in worse shape. She had been shot in the gut and well... The Facet is doing what he can, but we don't have any doctors and I'm not sure we can bring Tiff to a hospital.

The person who saved us was Cerise. The guy with the multiple guns is Legion. She was hoping to capture him there, but failed. She claimed saving our lives was an unintended side effect. Sandy did show up back at the base shortly after Tiff and I did, btw in case any of you were worried.