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I'm not actually certain if this sequence takes place slightly before Harem left her message for Max, or if relaying a cell message to that part of Africa has some technical challenges or if all the cosmic energies recently unleashed and portals and giant hot glass disks impacted her service. Probably a little from each column. I'd have drawn Max holding a sat phone, but those don't exactly fit in the back pocket of women's jeans without creating a bit of a lump, so I guess she's just got her cell phone. Presumably her phone is some custom job with a titanium frame or something, but I don't know if you could fit a military grade antenna in something like that without jacking up the rest of the internals.

Luckily the team has two supersonic fliers. Tactically, it's probably unwise to have them both in the same place if they're away from the base. Like, what if some super decided to knock over a bank in Seattle? Archon didn't advertise this excursion though, so your average mid-level super thug wouldn't know the optimal time to start causing trouble. Even Arianna is unsure about how to publicize this, as Deus seems to insist on being a controversial figure every time he gets in front of a camera.

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Kizik Ucalegon

So she's going the distance. She's going for speed? It's good to know that they won't be all alone - all alone, in their time of need.

Marc Vun Kannon

I was thinking Sydney was smart enough to tell Max about the atmorb, but I guess not. Guess we'll have to wait a while on that little revelation. Can't wait to find out what the whole incursion at Archon was about. Probably a field exercise to show how poorly prepared they were.

Immortal_Knight

Great python reference for the title Dave, I love that line! "what...is the airspeed velocity of a coconut laden swallow?" "what, do you mean an African swallow or a European swallow?"

Whoriar

My guess for the time frame.. Darudes appearance has interfered with cellphone reception (a lot of silica dust can probably do that if it's done intentionally), the teams comms has a limited reach (not capable of cross-continent communications) and Harems messages thus reached only voice mail.. The ring Maxima just got, was because reception was restored

Michael Obert

Oooh. . .those other guys are in troooouuubllllleee . . .

gili

Ahw, I feel bad for Deus

Philip Brown

umm. wouldn’t the fastest means of travel be a portal. via Sydney or dabbler?

Brett

I suspect by the time she got to either dabbler or Sydney, and got them to open a portal she could be home again. It's already been stated that we haven't seen Max's top speed yet.

Just Jack

That and Max couldn't possibly pass up the opportunity to last word Deus by breaking the sound barrier. She's not above grandstanding when it won't cause problems.

Stephen Gilberg

What's SMB? I doubt it's "Super Monkey Ball," and the original "Super Mario Bros." doesn't have any music associated with hammers. The closest I could think of is the hammer theme from "Donkey Kong," reused in the Super Smash Bros. series. Or the Hammer Bros. battle theme from "Super Mario Bros. 3."

BJ

Man, I would not want to be the villain who just ruined Deus's date.

Erin Palette

Is she even going to have a shirt by the time she arrives?

Aaron Mauthe

Two? Can hiro not go supersonic?

Hanna

Max told Sidney Hiro can reach mach 1 only with gravity assistance.

Gary Jordan

Max is as fast as fast must be, without being either too fast or not fast enough. (Paraphrasing Robert A. Heinlein)

Tim Nutting

Max's phone has special induction plates that allow her to use her metal skin as an antenna? 😉

LucasTheLost

I figured all the team's phones were super-inventor special hand crafted, bespoke, works of art. Except for whats-her-name. She couldn't figure out how to work in some harpoon, and refused... and was promptly distracted by some spear-launching back burner project of hers... The self-extracting Tampoon!

True

assuming Max can do Mach 5? its still a muti hour fly back to base. If she just got the we are under attack grabing Syd flying out a bit and opening a bridge whould be faster,.

True

Actually scratch that. We don't know what Max Max speed is. Do we? Sydney was Mach 4 and she was their second fastest but we never actually heard what Max's was if she's ICBM speed or even faster that could technically take you down to minutes, even from Africa to Middle America

furry

Her speed may also depend if she can go above the atmosphere too. Meaningfull atmos i mean, i think it goes way up, but you what i mean.

furry

If air drag is not an issue, and she can perhaps simply hold her breath for a bit..

Greg Morrow

Given Max's observed energy output at (ahem) max, she can probably head out of atmosphere, cook up to interplanetary speeds on a powered suborbital route, and re-enter atmo in a half-hour time frame. She'll set off every single alarm watching space and US airspace there is, and her re-entry will be a second sun, but she can cut off a lot of time compared to staying in atmo. (Navigating would also be a challenge.)

Kevin Wright

Heh, little bitty boob window ala Power Girl.