"you sure about this?" Asked the Ghost floating beside me that had decided on the name North as we watched the campsite of my target from about 100 metres away give or take.
"Yup, as I explained these are total monsters worse than any human, exo or awoken I can think of except maybe Clovis" I continue monitoring the group through the lense of the Whisper while I wait for just the right moment.
"Alright just making sure, you always had a lot of hesitation when asked to kill anyone from your own race" I hummed as the moment I had been waiting for had arrived.
In the campsite the Slaughterhouse nine where reaching that part of the night were those not on watch are getting ready for bed which was what I had been waiting for.
With two resounding booms the heads of both Shatterbird and burnscar's heads were gone and replaced with clouds of mist.
I holstered the Whisper and created two tethers of Strand that I used to slingshot my way through the trees, when I was about to clear the tree line I swapped to void and coated my hands all the way up to my shoulders in void light.
With a crack I landed on-top of Crawler and with the void light coating my hands I plunged my hands into his head using the void to devour anything I touched until I reached a part deep enough I was satisfied and formed a suppression grenade inside his head.
I jumped back as a claw like metal appendage was whipped at me from behind and ducked as an invisible blade neared my head, as I dodged both attacks the grenade went off and the connection Crawler had with his Shard was completely shattered forcing his mutated body to have to try and hold its own weight without powers.
With crawler out of the fight I focus on the other members of this murderhobo family, I take a step to the side as a white and black stripped arm tries to cleave me in two.
I grasp the grip of my chosen weapon and with a quick back step I have enough room to aim between the Siberian's and pull the trigger.
I watch as the stripped woman dismisses the bullet before I easily rips through her head and her form shatters, "fucking idiot" I say as I holster Hawkmoon back on my hip.
Using the moment popping the stripped bitch gave me I swing the graviton Lance of my back and put a few more rounds into crawler to make sure he's dead.
Out of the corner of my eye I see Mannequin try and take a swing but I just void blink over it and pop his chrome dome with a blackhole from the GL, instantly his 'head' is engulfed in a singularity that then consumes his whole body.
I see Jack try and open his mouth but I whip out the last word and put two bullets in his kneecaps to shut him up so I can save him for last.
I feel the hair on the back of my neck stand on end and out reflex I drop to the floor, dodging a swing from the Siberian who had reformed.
"Oh your back, that's too bad" I say as I reach into my pocket and pull out the detonator I had set up before I even started considering taking these monster out.
"Pop" I push the button and in the distance as explosion goes of and the Siberian's face morphs into fear before she fades entirely.
"Riley if you don't sit down in gonna put a bullet in you head" the use of her name makes the little murderhobo freeze and instinctively sit bore I walk over to the kneeling jack and put the last word against his forehead.
"Now jackie boy I gotta ask any last words?" I ask the single deadliest person in this universe for his ability to make scion go crazy.
He opens his mouth to say something but before he gets to even get the first syllable out I pull the trigger four times into different parts of his head so he is absolutely dead.
I sigh as I wipe a splash of blood off one of my favourite weapons before I walk over and drop down next to the still frozen child.
"This will most likely hurt but if it works than think of it as punishment" I say as I place a hand on the kids head and start pushing massive amounts of positive solar light into her body.
It concentrates around her brain and spine as the malformed bits are moved back to how they should be undoing the intense brainwashing and damage the Slaughterhouse 9 had done to Riley.
He eyes rolled up as she passed out and I continued fixing what was wrong with her whilst also using a small amount of void light to suppress her connection to her shard.
I spent about an hour just healing the damage to her brain and another hour fixing the tinker tech in her body so that it wasn't blackboxed atleast and wouldn't degrade without maintenance.
When I was happy I had fixed all the things done to her I used a small spark of Arc light to wake her up.
The moment she woke up she had to cover her mouth as her brain started working properly and her ability to feel empathy was restored along with her familial attachment to Jack and the other monsters was shattered as she remembered what they did to her family.
I stroked her back as she vomited more and more as she recalled the terrible things she had done to people.
"Why?" She asked in a small voice when she had a moment away from throwing up.
"Because you are a child who was twisted to become a monster"
"But I hurt so many people, I wasn't a good girl at all" she said as she cried while I stroked her back.
"It wasn't your fault, jack had a master power along with his others" she looked up at me confused as I continued "how do you think he managed to control a pack of killers who would have normally just killed each other outright?" I asked.
"He was mastering us?" She asked as she looked back through her memory at all the weird things he would do like winning fights he should absolutely not be able to because his opponent would 'miraculusly' trip up at just the right moment.
"Yep" I stay there with Riley as she son and vomits more and more as she forces herself to remember every single person she has hurt.
"What do I do?" She basically begged me.
I shrugged and she despaired before I continued, "help more people than you hurt" it was a simple answer to a stupid question.
"Make up for all that you've done by doing so much good that it outweighs the bad" I continued.
"Use the power that has hurt so many to instead heal and aid others"
"Will I feel better if I do?" She looks at me hopefully but I sadly shook my head.
"Most likely not, infact It might get worse as you realise how many could have been helped" she fell further into despair.
"But it will numb into a distant pain as you get closer and closer to making up the difference"
She looked out at the bodies of her 'family' as they lay there.
"Where do I start?" She asked quietly and I stood, took a few steps and asked North to transmat my sparrow to me.
"You could join me, I'm headed to the cape capital of America and there will be a lot of people in need of help there?" I offer as my Burnout appeared before me Ina sparkle of blue particles.