Midnight World/Awesome


 * Many readers agree that Vadim Gabrielyan himself is CMOA incarnate. Anyway, several moments rise above his usual level of awesomeness. For example, that special moment when he killed the chief of shift to raisethe battle alarm in the Citadel of Aachen.

"'Call master Smirnov, please.

'Ivan Denisovich? Sorry, he is busy. There is a screw... no, excuse me, an universal monter in his... right temple.

'Because you've taken him from the left?'

'Yes...'"

And soon after that:

"'Gabrielyan, can you tell, what differs you from that high lords?'

'In essence? - Gabrielyan took spectacles off and rubbed the bridge of his nose. - I am a killer, not an astronomer'.

And he smiled at Gopher."


 * Igor Iskrennikov, aka Tsume, also may be considered as a walking CMOA. Let us count:


 * Motorbike fly from the museum roof to his wife's execution scaffold.
 * Rescue of Aeneas from motel: I am not the second, I am the first one!
 * Settling the matters of love between Aeneas and May Day.
 * Dealing with mafia in Szczecin and Bratislava.
 * Minivan jump from flyover road junction in Hamburg.
 * Whale disguise in Copenhagen.
 * Barehanded combat with much older and stronger vampire Francois Tallien in Nîmes.


 * Aeneas. First of all, the moment when he'd rescued Igor from Milena Gontar's scaffold and was shot in the process, and, bleeding, outdrove all the pursuers. Second - just before the exorcism, when he, on a verge of fainting, managed to break Igor's nose and win several seconds for Kostya. And, the most awesome of all - Hamburg:

"'Wh... Who are you?'

'Drogenqualitatenkontrollenkomission. Your customer had a bad trip. We take measures.'"

No wonder that he could plan and fight poisoned and hallucinating - reader already knows he is a Badass. But he managed to pronounce that awful German word which means "drug quality control commission". That's really awesome.


 * And the way he dealt with UAF staff members.

"Having this said, he raised his left hand with fragmentation grenade in it.

'American pineapple, "Sparrow-18", almost fifty years old. Blasting radius 11 meters of air-blast and 160 meters of fragment-scattering. It's on open space, don't know what will happen indoors. My word on it. Unload your gun, put it on the floor and push to me."