Mega-City of New York
Running To The Hospital
Vince
While the M-Tac officers don't lower their weapons, Captain Majors waves you forward, ordering you to stop about fifteen feet away. She looks at you, and through her helmet you can see her cybornetic eye glowing.
"You certainly have similar powers," she says without emotion. "Rogers, take a DNA scan," she says flatly, and one of the men's arm cannons vanishes into his powersuit as he approaches with a harmless looking scanner.
"Just hold out your arm," he says calmly. "The scan won't hurt." He puts the device on your arm, a beam of light goes down and up your arm briefly, and he returns to the line, handing the scanner to Captain Majors.
"Stand down," she says, in her flat voice, removing her helmet. Her men immediately do just that, and start returning to their vans. Majors afixes you with a cold stare, which sends a shiver down your spine. "Get in," she says, nodding at her van. "You've terrified enough people today with your naked run through the daisies. We'll drop you at emergency," she adds, pulling a blanket from under a seat and tossing it to you. "And wrap that around yourself."
The men in the van shift to allow you to sit in the middle seat closest to the side door as you hear a siren and from over the hill ahead, an EPIC van comes speeding towards the area.
Driving Towards Bush Memorial
Loki, Straightjacket
You head for the hospital in as quick a way as possible using your map system in the van. Things go well until you hit freeway construction that your map system doesn't have shown. You are ground to a halt for nearly 15 minutes before you make it past. 30 minutes later, you reach Bush Memorial, with nary a sight of Vince. Above, Tara hasn't spotted anything either.
Doctor Johnson sees you pull up and comes out to see you.
"I haven't seen or heard from him at all. I don't suppose he was in uniform and can be tracked by his communicator, though that would probably be too much to hope for," he says just as the emergency band of your scanner picks up something interesting. There is a rampaging monster in Skylark Park, moving rapidly towards Bush Memorial Hospital. M-Tac has been dispatched to capture the creature, which is suspected to be a mutant.
The park is only a mile and a half away! As you close distance, Tara radios that she see's the M-Tac vans heading towards the area, but she's too far away to get there before them. You come over a short hill, siren blaring, and see two M-Tac vans blocking the road. Beside one, you see a frightening demonic man standing, probably 7 feet tall, red skinned, mottled with black, with immense horns and clawlike protrusions sticking out in various areas.
EPIC Institute
Sanjay
You go to Rebound's room and Monica is already pulling an obviously hastily dressed Jackson out into the hall. "You would have slept the whole night and woken up starving and grumpy for our trip to South America, and who would you have to blame for that?" she scolds him. "Oh, heya, sport," she says happily as you exit your room. "Took you long enough!"
The three of you head towards the mess, entering to find it nearly deserted. A few students are here, munching on the smorg, but of your team, only your favorite person, Cosmo, is present. He has two girls with him, hanging on his every word as he explains how he heroically saved everyone at the Lockheed Facility yesterday. At the same table, many plates full of food sit, obviously abandoned by their previous owners.
"Oh gawd," he says, seeing the three of you walk in. "Look what the cat dragged in. Or was that kitten?" he asks with a smirk. "Wow, not even 45 minutes," he says, checking his watch and shaking his head at Sanjay with mock shame.
Lancheng, China
Raisa
Clean-up involves a lot of shovelling, sweeping and picking up broken things. Raisa is asked to come down to the docks where a huge crowd has gathered to watch her, hopefully, lift the massive fuel tank back into place on it's new wooden stand. Master Wen is there, as is Xi who is supervising last minute preparations. Master Wen pulls you aside.
"And how was Jackal?" he asks seriously.
X12, Kevin
The nurse shows you what supplies she can spare, and tells you that Li has already gone out with Dara armed with similar goals. As you go along the streets, something catches X12's eye. There is a flickering light in the upper window of a two story home, one that is attached to many others, all made of wood. It's still daylight, and the flickers are very bright, like something is ablaze.
