[u][b]The C.E./Elsie Detchkiss[/u][/b]

Elsie turned out into the broad daylight of Gotham Boulevard. Urban City (what everyone was calling New York City these days, not that anyone knew where the nickname came from) was slowly starting to get on with its life. Lady Asyr was nowhere to be found. Her heroine was missing, and Elsie didn't have the first idea what to do about it. Some gang just sold some guns to a "shady character" despiter her best efforts, and now she'd revealed herself to a random person in an alley. She didn't feel very robust. If the blob fell from the sky in front of her, Elsie was certain that it would win.

Crossing the street toward her car, people ignored her. Most of them, anyway. A little boy took a picture with his phone before being dragged off by his mother. The light turned red, and Elsie took a ste-[quote]owever, given that she's severely underpowered, she couldn't have gotten far from her last fight. Damon began to move around the area looking for Asyr, or at least a person who might b-

er clawed hand holding the skull suddenly turned to a fist and crushed the sku-

rned to follow her lead, whilst the rest of her kingdom stirred– 

Wild dogs howled and big cats roared in cacophony at her arrival (or was it an animalistic requiem for the fallen superhero?) Whilst sentries of men in varying degrees of armour hailed attention.
Wincing, Marissa stepped out into the suns-

oooo!" Cain screamed loosing control of his temper the metal table he had just been laying on lifted up into the air along with every particle of metal he had been working with then in a instant the fell to the ground. The particl-

ame out on Gotham Boulevar-[/quote]-p. The light had turned back to green by now, so she hastily stepped back onto the curb. 

Exactly none of that was a good sign, Elsie decided. And given how slow she was, she definitely needed some hel-[quote]keritt began to search the crime sc- 
going on inside Asyr's body-

n save her. I just need a sample of the infected DNA." He mutter-
-is is Electron. I assume you-

ficers Noelle donned her riot armor, took her Hawki-

"Connor..." started Miranda, trying to calm him down, "don't get worked up about it-"
ave something back at the lab that you need to see," she contin-[/quote]-p. "Damnit, White Text, [i]now[/i] you're helpful? Where were you an hour ago!" Elsie complained loudly. The mother of the boy (now across Gotham Boulevard) glared at The C.E.

[i]'Wait a minute,'[/i] Elsie thought, [i]'Wasn't one of those people coming down Gotham Boulevard?'[/i] She turned in the clunky white hardsuit. Gotham was perfectly normal in that direction, away from the crime scene. Which meant that the nanotech horror would be on the other side of Metropolis square, coming from uptown. Not to mention that Skeritt was in Metropolis Square at this very moment. Elsie still didn't trust that damn xeno. The Zenoth war had been The C.E.'s first real test of true heroism. It had helped that her costume was a space-worthy hardsuit. Fine, maybe she could salvage something from this day after all. Elsie hurried to get into her car.

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Elsie pulled the doorless Saab to a stop near the police 'borgs. One of the newer police vehicles, a six-wheeled behemoth, blocked immediate access to the crime scene. The Head of Police [even if Elsie could substitute "police" for "security", the leader of the organization would always be a "Head" to her] was surveying the scene. Obviously she was the one in charge, and Elsie did [i]not[/i] want to get brigged.

"Hey, HoP! Um, I mean, Chief!" she shouted. "Bad guys incoming! I gotta get through to tell that xeno bastard Skeritt! Nar-Sie, there's a whole lotta bad guys incoming! This is shaping up to be a major crisis, hey? Like, Zenoth War-big! One's practically right on top of us, on the other side of Metropolis Square! C'mon, let me through!"