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Generation Legacy: Issue #6

Kelly

Mr. Kincaid sighs, “It sounds noble it really does, but it is illegal, that is the bottom line. I wish there was another way, but I have to at least consult Dr. Hudabo, maybe he will find a better solution. I hate to do it to, because she is such a good student, and never causes any trouble, and seems like a sweet… girl.”

He turns and leaves, obviously looking upset, and seemingly upset that he has to do what he has to do, but seems to understand Kelly’s argument. SARAH replies to Kelly, and leads her and Charles to Star’s location.

Star is seated in her room, reading a book, well several books on her bed, neatly stacked in two piles. She places the book down and stands as you two enter, “Hello Kelly, welcome Charles, I have heard much about you,” she hands him a data chip, “this has all the information I gained from my encounter with the assassin, that is what you are here for right?”

Charles raises a brow, “Smart girl, and Tommy has taste,” he says appreciatively.

“Thank you,” Star replies.

Charles pops in the chip into his PDA and watches the footage, and grimaces, “Damn that is one massive beating. But I know this guy, he works for the Brass Orchid Triad as an enforcer, his twin brother is an elite as well. He goes by the name of Honor, and his brother is Strength. The Brass Orchid routinely uses elites for all kinds of things, execution among them. Someone is throwing around some cash, these services don’t come cheap.”

Star nods, “The Brass Orchid have a small foothold, here in town, from what I have gleaned from a cursory scan of Tommy’s databanks. Perhaps that should be a start?”

Charles nodded, “Maybe, it isn’t like they are going to talk to just anyone, but maybe they may talk to someone on the inside. That kid, you were talking to last time I was here, Kelly, that Chinese guy, if I heard right his name was Jimmy Li. And if it is the Li I am thinking of, then we may need to talk to him.”

Star smiles, “You are very knowledgeable Charles, Jimmy Li is the son of Chan Xing Li, Biotech Corp. CEO, and also linked to the Brass Orchid Triad leadership by significant blood ties. It is indeed a small world yes?”

Charles nods, “Sometimes too small. Any chance I can talk to Mark?” he says to Kelly.

Mr. McCallister’s Office

Yoshi nods, “An inside job suggests a spy, right? So are we talking a faculty member or student, or should we just suspect everyone, even the rest of the Legacy team? I mean who here wants to see Ryan dead?” he raises his hand, and then laughs, “Just kidding, seriously, how do you want to go about trying to see who did this?”

Billy groans, “Thanks Yoshi,” he turns back to the rest of the students, “Maybe we can split up, and put some of our powers to use tracking down this assassin after we get in contact with Kelly’s bodyguard. I just get the feeling we can get more done then the baseline authorities.”

Kiyana looks shocked, “You think someone here at the Institute did this! Oh no…” she looks to James for reassurance, “who would do that?”

Yoshi sighs, “That is what we are trying to find out, keep up Kiyana.”

“Oh… sorry,” she says somewhat hurt.

John says nothing, and Bjoba just folds his arms.

The Gym

Charlotte approaches the rest of the students around Jun Min as she smiles sweetly, “Okay well this looks like everyone for now, I wanted to start small with mostly new students but since Cassie has had some experience in this area, I figured I could include her too. Today we get to over basic self-defense, elite style. How many of you have ever faced an elite opponent in combat either real or spar?” she asks.
 

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Samnell said:
"Sure. Who on the outside would know what was going on when Legacy was chosen?" Mark agrees. He pauses for a long moment. And Tommy got video of the guy who took me out that might help, but McCallister doesn't know Star's a robot and it's not my job to tell him. I'll just have to get it to Kelly for her guy to look at.

"So we still have a lot of students and staff to choose from, though. Maybe the note wasn't a deliberate framing of Ryan. Maybe there's someone who didn't make Legacy and thought they deserved it who would have the money to get the hitman and trying to get us to think Ryan was behind it was just a bonus?"
Yoshi nods, "Rich kids with too much money pissed at not making Legacy. That could be a start, maybe Kelly set Ryan up" he jokes, "I am still wondering why even leave a note isn't that cliche, supervillainy stuff?"
 

Kelly watched wide-eyed, she hadn't seen any portion of the attack, or even heard it described, she winced at the blows raining down on Mark. She looks quite thoughtful when Jimmy's name comes up, maybe he was like Jealous or something of Mark, maybe he wanted to be in charge or something, I wonder, no, he probably didn't, I mean, I don't know him really well at all, but I think he would want to do something like that in person, she thinks dismissively.

"Yea, sure, I bet Mark and everyone would love to talk to you. SARAH, do you know where Mark is? Hey, Star, do you know any actual locations on buildings that they own, or their hangouts or anything like that? I'm sure it would be helpful to know where they are for when Legacy goes in to put a stop to their assassination attempts." Kelly asks of the robot girl. "Maybe you can come with us, and we can all talk to Mark, and the rest of Legacy at once, if they are still in that meeting."
 

"Very funny Yoshi," Ryan comments and rolls his eyes. "Look, Billy, what can our powers do? I mean, if you want to start beating confessions out of people, great, we're good at that. But our powers generally fall into two categories: movement based ones, like Mark's super speed or Jame's teleportation, and beatdown ones, like super strength and force fields. None of those is really going to come in handy for investigation. We're eighteen years old. The police have years of experience tracking people down, contacts, resources, you get the idea. We got none of that."

"And going by Mark's theory, I mean, that's pretty unlikely. Who here has that kind of money other than Kelly Mitchell?" Maybe I should go for my first impression on all things. I seem to right a lot. Except for that dance thing. And I was kind of right about that. I blame Shao-Lin.

"Okay, I'm not trying to start a witch hunt here. Feel free to suggest any name who you think might have done it. This is just a theory, but it could be Tommy. He has tons of money, and enough smarts to know how to make it untraceable. With his talent, he might be angry at not making Legacy. And he witnessed the argument Mark and I had at the mall, and we all know he's not a fan of me. And that cliche supervillainly stuff would be what Tommy adores. He's a real nerd, worships Justice Elite, etc. Maybe he wants to be a supervillain like in the comics or something."
 

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The Gym

Charlotte approaches the rest of the students around Jun Min as she smiles sweetly, “Okay well this looks like everyone for now, I wanted to start small with mostly new students but since Cassie has had some experience in this area, I figured I could include her too. Today we get to over basic self-defense, elite style. How many of you have ever faced an elite opponent in combat either real or spar?” she asks.

Karen shakes her head, "I've never fought with an Elite before."
She looks a bit alarmed, Oh no, self-defense, what if I go all sharp again? What if I hurt someone? Or worse...
 
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"I have been in fight with Elites," Cassie says, "Both in sparring and real combat, though I confess my performance has been subpar." nods to Jun Min calmly. "I am willing to practice, improvement will always be welcome."
 

"Almost, but not quite." Charlotte said, still slightly ticked off she glances over to Cassie, remembering the last time she was in the gym with her.

Brown-noser. She thinks.
 
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Anika gets a bit of a worried look on her face. "Do we really need to play the blame game?" she says, responding to some of the ideas. "That's not really fair to the people whose names we're throwing around. Especially since all we know is it must be someone at the school, so that includes all of us, too. Well, except Ryan, of course.

"I'm not saying we shouldn't try to find out who's doing this, but maybe we should try and get more facts before we start pointing fingers. Because, personally, I don't think it was Kelly or Tommy, and I have no idea who it might be."
 

"It's not Tommy. He doesn't like you Ryan, but he likes me and I don't think he's crazy enough to send an assassin after me to show affection, especially since running our simulations he knows what I can do and could probably figure out I couldn't take his hired gun on my own. So unless we can find some good reason why he'd really want to kill me I think he's off our list."

"And while we're at it, Kelly's paying I don't know how much money to her old bodyguard to have him check around on it and she has to know if we find the assassin we're going to trace him back to whoever hired him. Why would she be cooperating and putting so much money up if it's her?"

"I think we have three issues here. Someone wants to blame Ryan. I think that's more to cover their own tracks, though. If they really wanted Ryan out of the picture I wouldn't have gotten the visit of a lifetime last night. So that's not the big thing. Then we have someone that wants me dead. Then there's someone who wants the leader of Legacy dead. Is it about me or is it about Legacy?"
 
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Ryan thinks for a moment or two, mulling over what was said by Anika and Mark. "Well, logically, it could be any of us, including me. However, I think it would be best if we ruled out everyone in this room, for convenience's sake. Anika, we're not pointing fingers; we're considering suspects. The police do it all the time on Law and Order."

"Is it possible that someone didn't want Mark killed? I mean, you were there Mark. Are you one-hundred percent certain that Mr. Assassin was going to kill you? I mean, obviously he was no welcoming committee, but maybe he was only supposed to make you think that he was out for blood."

"Anyway, how did Mr. Assassin know where your limousine would be? It's not like he could have planned the route beforehand of the limo. He wouldn't even have known where you guys were going unless he got a very urgent phone call from the spy. Star probably has some kind of tracking device, since she likes high-tech gadgets and is friends with Tommy and stuff, so maybe that's how Tommy could have known where you were going." I wish Mr. McCallister would leave so we could talk about Star's nature freely.
 

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