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It's a trap. 

Simon looked around. The voice in his head went off, sounding like a freight train. He had a sense of vertigo, a strange feeling of deja vu. His vision was askew.

"They're moving," Donnelly said. "I think they are onto us."

"Element of surprise is over," Scorpio said.

Don't do it. 

Simon's head was on fire, like a phosphorus flare burning white. Like the sound of dice rolling across the table, echoing in his mind.

Scorpio brought out his gun and stood at the door to the adjoining car.

Make a saving roll.

Unstationed

Goner leaned out into the aisle, staring. "Hey Frank?"

Frank was looking in the other direction; Akimoto seemed troubled by something that Tatter had said to him. The big man was strange even by their standards. Suki knew the most about him, but she had been gone for so long...

"Did we pick up any other passengers at the last stop?" Goner asked.

Frank tried to remember... Things weren't always clear on the subway. "I don't think so... It was a long time back, wasn't it?"

He saw what had caught Goner's attention. People moving in the car ahead of theirs.

"Angst," Frank said calmly. The cheerleader was toying with her pom-poms while Aqua braided her pigtails. "Get your guns."

Underground Dramatis Personae

STONE - detective turned conspiracy theorist

RIVETA - detective turned metaphysical investigator

DONNELLY - ex-principal or maybe a priest

SCORPIO - geek turned double-agent

SIMON - mystery man

AKIMOTO - temporally-displaced norse samurai

TATTERDEMALION - strange girl from another planet

AQUA - teenage tiger-fist

FRANK - reformed LEGACY hitman

GONER - ex-mercenary

ANGST - cheerleader avec uzis 

Logo Hunter

Logollos put the phone down on the receiver and cracked a vicious smile and said to no one in particular, "'And that's how the game is played."

"Don't you know that in games you can bend the rules here and there?" said a voice from the shadows, which startled the hell out of him. Logollos scanned his office and couldn't find the form. He had to have the bio-detectors checked once again; this was the third time in a month they didn't scan anyone out of the ordinary. He didn't panic, instead quickly moved his foot over to the alarm switch underneath his desk. All he had to do now was stall the intruder for thirty seconds.

"I don't know who you are and how you came in here," he said with all the charm and charisma of a snake-oil salesman. "But it's the last thing that you'll ever do."

"Precisely," Mayganne said as she stepped into the light, holding one hell of a handgun. It looked like an arquebus.

Before Logollos had a chance to reply she pulled the trigger and a blue ball of energy shot out of the barrel.

The top ten floors of the Legacy Tower erupted into a brilliant ball of light which could be seen for miles around.