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“So, this Cassandra Taylor, this ‘Chill Raider’, is she going to be a problem?” General Alvarez asked from behind his desk. “Team spirit…” She extended her fingers, and the robot hands followed suit with the claws flaring to twice their original size, excess plasma streaming behind them. Amateur xxx Cassandra, now on her feet, laughed heartily. The rest of the room was littered with various Cheer Raider merchandise, all of it damaged: action figures and fashion dolls missing limbs or heads and scarred by some sharp implement, plush dolls that had been ripped apart or partially burned, the smashed remains of battery-operated toy versions of her weapons, various other cheap knickknacks broken to pieces for merely being branded with her picture. “We practiced that routine so many times, whenever I
