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[center][b]Christopher Arthur III[/b][/center]
	Minerva stood alone at Settler’s Clearing.  A holographic projector had been set up beside her in anticipation for Christopher Arthur’s little 	‘superhero’ meeting.  At that moment, she was peering down at her watch, while at the same time taping her foot against the ground.  Was Chris really going to be late for his own meeting that he himself wanted to be set up?  Normally, these meetings that he would usually miss or come late to were what he would have considered ‘boring’ or ‘tedious’.  Would he treat this in a similar fashion?

	One by one, the heroes arrived.  Thunderbolt and Boom zoomed there in the flash of lightning.  Icon soared down from the sky.  Even those who did not have the colossus powers of these previously named heroes found a way to arrive.  Lyger even pulled up in his own vehicle.  Once Radiance had arrived, the only hero who was missing was their host himself, Chris.  Minerva could not believe that her boss was skipping out on the meeting that he requested to be arranged.  It was a monumental task for her to find where she needed to put the invitations.  Or at least it would seem monumental if a mortal had accomplished it, since Minerva was in fact Athena in disguise, who enlisted the aid of Helios to discover these heroes’ whereabouts.

	After a few minutes, a limousine finally pulled up to where the heroes and Minerva had gathered together.  Once the vehicle slowed down to a standstill, the chauffeur walked around the car and opened the backseat door that was facing the assembled heroes.  When the door was opened, Chris stepped out of the limousine and removed his sunglasses from his face, placing the pair of glasses into his dress shirt’s pocket.

	[color=C0C0C0]“I apologize for the delay.  My appointment with the Miss March from the Viera Magazine ran over a little longer than I expected.”[/color]  When Chris realized that the others were giving him a blank stare as their response to his comment, he tried to qualify his statement.  [color=C0C0C0]“Hey, when someone, who usually dates superstars and models, discovers that their date actually understands half of the scientific mumbo-jumbo, he might want to extend the night out a little bit.”[/color]

	[color=C0C0C0]“Okay, so before we begin, I would like to match up names with faces.  While we all know who Icon is,”[/color] Chris gestured towards the blue and silver superman, [color=C0C0C0]“Unless you want me to refer to you all as the Quicksilver twins, the Black Panther, and Electra, we might want to do a short little ice breaker.”[/color]

	[color=C0C0C0]“I’ll start.  I’m Christopher Arthur III.  Playboy millionaire and philanthropist.  However, you might better know me as Iron Knight, who helped most of you, whom, if my memory serves me correctly, were all involved with stopping that whole Demon Invasion fiasco.”[/color]

[hider=OOC]In order to speed things up, I have taken the liberty to also write what Chris will say after the 'ice breaker'.  However, we will assume that any answers to the 'ice breaker' will come before the second part of this post.[/hider]
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	After the heroes became reacquainted with one another, Chris pulled out a small remote and clicked one of the many buttons that were on that device.  Immediately, the holographic project started to hum, signaling that it was warming up.

	[color=C0C0C0]”Well, if the invitation was not clear enough, we’re here to discuss [b]this[/b] situation.”[/color]  A recording of the broadcasted message of the man, who had threatened to give everyone in the world superhuman powers, was played by the holographic projector.  [color=C0C0C0]“A little over 24 hours ago, this aired on national and international television, as I am sure you all have seen.  I have called this meeting so that we could decide the proper course of action.  While S.T.R.I.K.E. is scrambling around Lost Haven to find this device, I would like to be able to have a ‘Plan B’ in my pocket, just in case everything goes to hell.”[/color]

	[color=C0C0C0]“About a few weeks ago, I had encountered a small facility in West Virginia that was producing a chemical that seemed to develop metahuman powers in regular people.  At first, I was not quite sure whether the man in that broadcast was associated with the people who I encountered in West Virginia.  However, after corroborating the broadcast’s story about his followers stopping a ‘terrorist’ from tainting one of Lost Haven’s water supplies with this crude video that was taped by an eye witness, I am convinced that they are one and the same.”[/color]  The video changed to the home video of the event where the group of metahumans were confronting War-Pulse.  However, the quality of the video made it difficult to discern the identities of the metahumans captured in the tape.  [color=C0C0C0]“In this video, you will see this large, shark-like man.  I fought that same man in West Virginia.  So I feel it is safe to assume that these two events are not mere coincidences.”[/color]

	[color=C0C0C0]“Therefore, before we decide anything, I would recommend that we recruit a few others who might provide us with some useful intel about this group.”[/color]  The holographic projector changed the image that it was displaying again, this time showing images of Raptor, Wasp, and Arachne.  [color=C0C0C0]“I found these three artificial metahumans at that West Virginian facility.  I don’t know whether you all have seen them before, but hopefully they can give us some more insight into what we’re getting ourselves into.”[/color]

	Then, an image of War-Pulse appeared over the holographic projector.  While S.T.R.I.K.E. did not have much on this figure, by using his own memory and the video feed from his armor, Chris was able to develop an approximate recreation of what War-Pulse might look like.  [color=C0C0C0]“For those who helped us during the Demon Invasion, this guy might look familiar.  I cannot for the life of me remember if he mentioned his name then, but for our purposes here, let’s call him ‘Winter Soldier’, in order to keep with the ‘Marvel’ theme.  From the video footage that I had just shown you a few minutes ago, it appears that this metahuman had quite a scuffle with the people who are threatening to change everyone into metahumans.   Just as with the other metahumans, hopefully this ‘Winter Soldier’ will know what we’re up against.”[/color]

	[color=C0C0C0]“So, any questions before we continue?”[/color]