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Dr. Mundo watched Jinx with a look of heavy, vacant concentration. He didn't pursue Chen or Vi. Instead, he tilted his head, his massive blue tongue lolling.
"Oh! You look very normal," Mundo rumbled, sounding almost disappointed. Then his eyes brightened. "Oh~ you must be a doctor too! You carry many... small scalpels!"
Jinx, perched on a streetlamp, stared down at the purple mountain of muscle. For the first time in her life, she had found someone who made her look like the sane one. "This guy is a lunatic," she muttered, her manic grin faltering. "He's even crazier than I am."
Uninterested in another "doctor," Mundo turned his attention back to the "patients" left behind—injured Enforcers who couldn't crawl away fast enough. He began to line them up with terrifying care, humming a tuneless song as he prepared his saw. Jinx didn't stick around to watch the "surgery." She revved her hoverboard and flew off to find Chen.
Chen was in a bad way. The impact from Mundo's briefcase had left a massive, purple-black bruise across his waist, and his back was a map of lacerations. Caitlyn, who had some basic field-medic training from the Academy, reached out to bandage him.
WHACK.
Jinx flew down and slapped Caitlyn's hand away with a hiss. "Don't touch him, Cupcake! I'm the one who fixes him!"
Caitlyn sighed and stepped back, watching as Jinx began to wrap Chen with aggressive, frantic energy. By the time she was done, Chen didn't look like a warrior—he looked like an Egyptian exhibit that had accidentally joined a street gang.
"There," Jinx chirped, clapping her hands. "Now the blood stays inside. Good as new!"
"..." Chen tried to nod, but his neck was restricted by three layers of gauze. "I... thanks, Powder."
The situation was spiraling. Shimmer Warriors were one thing, but Mundo was a raid boss with infinite health regeneration. Caitlyn looked at the mummy-fied Chen, her brow furrowed. "Chen... if you're in there... we need a plan. My bullets just bounce off his ribs. I can't watch more of my men get 'operated' on."
Chen managed to shuffle toward a map. "First, tell the Enforcers to stop wearing blue. Mundo has a target-fixation on the uniform. Block the streets, set up the cannons, and evacuate the residential sectors. But we need more than cannons. We need the Council to wake up."
The Council Chamber was a hive of panicked aristocrats. Mel Medarda was trying to maintain order, but the merchant lords were only interested in their ledgers.
"The Hexgates are occupied! Do you know how many shipments are stalled?" one councilor screamed. "The Noxians will have my head if their wine doesn't arrive by Tuesday!"
"Who cares about the wine? The loss of trade revenue is exceeding three hundred million gold a day!"
The doors swung open. Caitlyn entered, followed by Vi, Jinx, and a man who looked like a walking bandage. The smell of copper and Shimmer ozone filled the room.
"Sheriff!" a councilor barked. "How long have you been in office? The Hexgates are lost, and you're here looking like you just crawled out of a gutter! Do you have any idea how much money we're losing?"
Caitlyn didn't flinch. "Councilor, your life is about to be over, and you're still worried about your profit margins?"
"Are you threatening me?!"
"No," Chen's muffled voice came from the bandages. He stepped forward, his eyes sharp through the gaps in the gauze. "She's telling you the truth. Silco has brought a monster into the city that eats lead and laughs at your cannons. If he leaves the pier, there won't be anyone left to buy your wine."
The councilors scoffed. They hadn't seen Mundo. They hadn't seen the surgery. To them, "unkillable monsters" were just excuses for a failing police force.
"We give you gold for research! We give you the best equipment!" the councilor shouted. "If you can't beat a few drug addicts, why are we supporting you?"
"Enough!" Mel Medarda's voice cut through the noise. She looked at Chen. "If the situation is as dire as you say, what is the solution?"
"Hextech Weapons," Chen said firmly. "We have to authorize Jayce Talis to weaponize the Hex-Core. Now."
Heimerdinger stood up, his ears drooping with worry. "Must it really come to this, Chen? Magic used for slaughter? The cycle of violence will only—"
"Professor," Chen said, his tone softening but remaining firm. "If we don't build them, there won't be a city left to have a cycle. This isn't a debate. It's an evacuation notice."
Suddenly, the wired telephone on the central desk began to ring. Mel answered, putting it on speaker.
"Hello? Is this the Council?"
Caitlyn's eyes widened. "It's Silco. He's calling from the Hexgate terminal."
"We are in a meeting, Silco," Mel said, her voice regal. "What are your terms?"
"Amnesty for Zaun, self-governance, and free trade," Silco's voice crackled through the wire. "And one more thing. You will build a Hexgate in the Undercity. Zaun will no longer be your basement."
The room exploded. "A Hexgate in the Sump?! We'd lose our monopoly!" "It would take decades to break even!" "He's a criminal! We don't negotiate with gutter rats!"
Only Heimerdinger raised his hand to agree, willing to give up gold for peace. The others remained seated, their greed outweighing their fear.
"Fine," Silco's voice grew cold. "If you won't give me the gates, I'll let the Doctor finish his rounds. Wait and regret."
Click.
The silence that followed was deafening. Chen looked at the councilors—the "maggots" as he now thought of them—who were still calculating their losses. He'd had enough. He ripped the bandages off his face with a hiss of pain.
"I'm not here to ask for your permission anymore," Chen said, his voice dripping with disdain. "I'm informing you. We're going to save this city, and when we're done, we're going to have a very long talk about who actually deserves to run it."
He turned and walked out. Vi gave the councilors a double-middle-finger salute, and Jinx stuck her tongue out with a loud "RUA!" before following. Caitlyn looked at her mother with profound disappointment and joined them.
Outside, Caitlyn was frantic. "Alright, you've offended every powerful person in Piltover. Now what? How do we stop Mundo?"
"I'm going to Jayce," Chen said, checking his streetlamp. "He'll build the weapons. But we need more. We need a team that can handle a Juggernaut."
He handed Caitlyn a scrap of paper with two names on it.
Caitlyn squinted at the handwriting. "Camille of the Ferros Family? I can find her; the Ferros clan owns half the city. But who... who is Seraphine?"
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