My name is Blake Simone and me and my seven friends are going to comic con dressed up as our favorite group from the Web serial Worm. The Undersiders. I was checking to see if I had my costume just right. A black bodysuit with 3d printed 'chitin' armor and a mask that resembled a bugs face. It had yellow lenses for eye protection. It took a while to get my dark curly hair the right length for this but I felt it was worth it. I was going as Skitter the first persona of the main character Taylor Hebert. Ali bit with slight modifications to the costume besides the collapsible baton and pepper spray I added to the costume a 3d printed hinged pack that I made so that I could store other things like my collapsible sword I made based off the collapsible baton. I also added a hidden pocket for My phone and wallet. Once I was sure everything was secure I looked at my reflection in the mirror and gave a smile behind the mask finding it was perfectly spot on except that I was missing one thing. I didn't have a Atlas to go with the costume. Which was a major bummer as I didn't have anything to make a plushy of Atlas.
(A/N: the one on the left is her costume for a more visual look.)
with a nod I left my house and found a certain van driven by a figure dressed in a leather biker outfit. Only thing missing was the skull like bike helmet of the costume. my friend's black skin on his face was shown as he turned to see me.
"Blake one of these days we need to see if you will do commissions for costumes with that 3d printer of yours." He said and I gave a glare behind my mask as I scoffed.
"Sorry Jake but your going to have to wait on that one for a while at least" I told him entering the van to see our other six members of our group waiting. There in a Victorian styled blue dress and porcelain doll like Mask was my cousin selinne. her actual blond hair was pulled into the traditional curls of her character. Only thing she was missing was the gloves of her costume.
Another blond girl this time dressed in a black and lavender bodysuit with a stylized Egyptian eye emblem on the chest but was missing the domino mask that finished the costume was my best friend Kylie.
The only other boy of our group was a brown haired teen in a renaissance inspired outfit was mark and looked like he was missing the scepter of the character.
Then there was Jakes sister and mark's girlfriend Ashley dressed in a tank top and jeans with a long scarf that doubled as a lower face mask where a Japanese white and red upper mask finished hiding the rest of her face.
the next girl was a big boned and strong girl we befriended named Beth who wore a fake fur lined tan coat over a shirt and jeans missing only the dog headed mask of her character.
the last girl was dressed up as a archer missing only a bow and quiver to her costume. Her name was dawn.
together we were dressed up as taylor hebert, lisa wilborne, sabah, lily, alec, brian and aisha with Rachel the characters that formed up the undersiders.
"Didn't have time to finish costumes guys" I asked amused.
"My cat got to my mask so I'm hoping to get a replacement at the con" said Kylie with a shrug.
"my brother got a hand on the scepter I crafted and shattered the thing so I'm hoping on finding a good substitute for it" said mark.
"Dad took Bros helmet by mistake for that cross Country motorcycle race and mom took away my replica twin blades that were my costume part. I tried to tell her I would have foam coverings for them and wasn't going to pull them out and use them in the convention." Ashley reported for both her and her brother who had started driving.
"Some idiot took my mask and painted over it and I didn't have time to fix it so I had to leave it at home." Growled Beth irritated.
"My gloves were stained so I had to put them in the wash. My little brother apparently thought they were a wash rag to clean up a drink spill. I gave him the riot act for that on always checking if what your holding is actually what you think it is." Said silinne.
"I just don't own a good enough bow and quiver to use as most of the ones I do own had rotted wood or broken arrows. Seems they got hit real hard by that storm a few years back" said dawn sadly. We all winced knowing how much she loved archery.
"What about you blake" asked mark.
"Atlas is what I'm missing" I replied lowering my head.
"Hey I don't even have a trio of dogs for my character so don't feel bad about that" said Beth giving me a amused look.
soon enough we arrived at the convention center hosting this year's comic con and we entered. looking around the 8 of us was impressed by just how much merchandise there was. I even picked up a replica of Daredevils variable staff. With practice born from my collapsible baton I disassembled the staff into its many parts and stored them into my pack and with a twitch of my muscles it snapped closed without my hands moving it.
You wouldn't beleive the months I spent practicing that function of my pack. I had to design a spring lock system that needed to be pressed in a certain spot to pull the pack closed then opened and keep it that way. Rather useful all things considered. I definitly impressed my friends and cousin with that.
Soon though we were passing a stand that held a vast assortment of random items used by comic book heroes and villians ran by a person dressed up as of all comic book characters Shadow dragon. Not a super I would recognize or know as I only stumbled on a cover art for the guy once and recognized the costume from that. There was a few items that caught our interest mainly the missing items for everyone but me in the group. Incredibly random! What were the chances seven of us would find everything we needed replacements for in this one stall! Though one item did catch my attention. Mainly a grapple gun.
looking at each other we approached the stall and picked up the items that got our eye.
"Interesting choices for such a diverse group. I don't think I ever had the pleasure of recognizing such costumes... if some can be counted as costumes" said the person running the stand and I got the feeling he was raising a eyebrow at us.
"You probably wouldnt. We are dressed as the Undersiders from the Web serial Worm. These seven just needed replacements for certain items of their costume. For varying reasons. Me I just decided this grapple gun would make a good addition to my gear" I said shrugging.
"Fair enough all together that's $120" said the merchant doing some addition of the prices of the items. Most of it was from the grapple and bow and quiver plus the twin blades. The least cheap items were the gloves and dog plus domino masks. The helmet was in the middle range with the septer. As we paid for them as I put away the grapple as the others pulled on or put away their new items the merchant seemed to smirk.
"Have fun now your in for a wild ride" said the merchant.
"Huh?" I asked as we became confused before it felt like something hit me in the head and darkness claimed me as I collapsed hearing everyone else fall as well. Then nothing as the last of my senses left as I lost conciousness.
(End chapter)
