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The pale stranger slowly backed away as Lyger approached. He put his hands up in protest as the hero moved in on him.

“You don’t understand.” He said. “I saved these children. They were wasting away in their lives. Their talents were being wasted by the mundane. I came to them, I offered them more. I offered them a chance to make something of themselves.”

Lyger continued toward the strange man, unmoved by his pleas. 

“You took children from their families, chained them up in this dank pit, and for what?” Lyger asked with an anger that surprised even him. 

“I became their family. We became a family.” The black clad figure said replied defiantly before throwing a wild punch that connected with nothing but air as Lyger avoided the punch before delivering one of his own, followed by a thrusting kick to the midsection and an elbow to the chin, the latter putting the dark clad figure on the ground. 

Lyger turned to the children who had been caged or otherwise chained up around the parameter of the “platform,” and began releasing them from their confines. 

“Run.” Lyger said to the children as he pointed toward the exit. “Get to the open manhole cover, I’ll be right behind you.”

“Stop! Children, stay with me, stay with your Fagan.” The man in black pathetically begged as he got to his feet.
“I don’t think so.” Came another voice. Lyger recognized it as the voice of the young man who he had encountered just before D-Say, Johnny Ellis. The young teen reached out with his hands, and mimicked a grasping motion. At the same time, it was like an invisible hand had taken hold of Fagan and lifted him into the air. Then, the invisible hand clamped down, squeezing the abductor with all its might. 

“Johnny, you don’t need to do this.” Lyger said, his voice softening when he addressed the teen. “He’s going away for a long, long, time.”

“No. He’ll just come back. I won’t let him.” Johnny said as he squeezed harder. There was a sickening popping sound as the force of the invisible had bore down on Fagan, before discarding him over the rail of the walkway into the sewer water below. 

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As Lyger made his way back to the open manhole cover, most of the children had already made their way up to the streets. As Lyger finally emerged from the dark tunnels, he could already see the flashing police lights from the incoming cruisers. 

[i]Good work, Harry.[/i] He thought to himself as he fired a grapnel line from his wrist gauntlet and made his way away from the scene as the police arrived. Though he was disturbed by what had happened with Johnny Ellis, he took comfort in the fact that the children would soon be reunited with their families.