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Hannah Smart recreates members of the Slaughterhouse Nine as children.
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Maurice hugs her. "You don't need to find out. I promise."

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She doesn't hug him back but she stops walking. She's shaking.

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"Everything's going to be okay." He lets go of her. "I'll be back."

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"...okay."

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He runs down the beach, shouting "Hannah! Hannah!"

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"But, we tried--"

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"We asked. Just get her."

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"But she wouldn't--"

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"...You can put her back together the way she is. Carol shouldn't be lonely."

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"I don't like this."

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Maurice sighs. "I know. But twins need twins."

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And so, in Earth Bet, Hannah-crabs go searching for the real Claire.

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Meanwhile, Zaneta is contacted by someone.

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She's in her office, using her vast superhuman speed for its true purpose: paperwork. "Yes?"

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"There has been an incident, which may either involve a suspiciously well-informed shapeshifting cape or your children."

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She puts her face in her palms. "Which ones?" 

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"Hannah, Maurice, and one of the new ones." He grabs a tinker device with a screen and shows her footage of said incident.

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She's silent for a moment. "...Maurice?"

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"One of the members of the Slaughterhouse Nine your daughter defeated was called Nyx, with a y. Ms. Hewett goes by Nix, with an i. They have—had—very similar powers, and we'd previously assumed the villain had copied the hero's name to tick her, but if this is true the connection might run deeper than that."

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"She has mentioned her sister before...usually while crying."

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"Do you have a way to verify these were in fact your children and not impersonators?"

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"Do you have capes who can replicate powers? Because those seem very similar to Maurice's."

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"It's not impossible. That was Vegas, these things happen in Vegas."

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