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"You can't hide from me!" he gloats, and jets of flame burst forth from his hands directly toward Sleeper, guided by the same radar system he uses to see through his smoke.
“Reeeeeeeeeeee!”

Sleeper flung himself backwards only to slam into a girder, but there was no pain as the fire engulfed him. His ringing symbiote screech graduated from fright to anger as he realized he’d been tricked. And he should have known better!

“Let’s see if you still think so after I eat the eyes out of your skull!”

Sleeper dove through his vantage point intending to make good on the threat. But a bolt of lightning from Electro struck nearby and it occurred to Sleeper, belatedly, that just because Beck could see him it didn’t follow that the rest of this merry band of miscreants could, and he should keep his mouth shut while they were still in play and could use his voice to track him.

So the next few moments were a bit tense while Sleeper leapt from floor to wall to ceiling and Beck tried to tag him closely enough for Electro to get a good idea of where Sleeper actually was, mostly resulting in a great deal of structural damage to the building.

He and Kaine were somewhat outnumbered, and Sleeper wondered what was keeping Hercules. But he had an idea to even the odds…

The space was somewhat confined, but opened up in unexpected places, giving Sleeper room to maneuver. And Beck had so kindly introduced Sleeper to his hallucinogenic gas…still dodging stray lightning bolts Sleeper leapt, jumped and tumbled over to Shocker, currently targeting Kaine, and gave the quilted supervillain a face full of Beck’s favored chemical cocktail…and a little extra as well…

~They’ve turned on us! They must have sold us out after they were arrested!~

Then there was a massive crash and an equally massive cement pipe appeared. Sleeper reflexively jumped for the ceiling, out of the way.

It was…howling?

…that sounded like Hercules.