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[b]May 13th, 10:30 am...[/b]

At the mountain fortress of STRIKE tension was high. Reports were coming in about an electrical monster ripping up the Mercury Mall, several aliens recently touching down on Earth, as well as the news on the fallen hero Liberty Son whom the press has labeled 'Darkstar.' Jon waited in an area outside of STRIKE's War Room. The room was designed for Level 3 access members and above to train using holo-droids and artificial scenery to mimic any type of situation. The Channel 11 morning news program was on, and for New Athens it was more like TMZ mixed with a damage/weather report for the area based on superhuman activity. A girl with the ability to control the weather had been causing thunderstorms recently. 

"..and in other news, reports have come in regarding a possible plant creature roaming the woodland areas of New Athens. Here's field correspondent Pepper Patterson..."

"Lee Heights usually sees it's fair share of superhumans just like the rest of the city. The residents near the woodland Lee Heights community are sure of it. What they're describing as 'walking plants' and 'a tree person' is roaming the woods. 

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"I don't know what it was in those woods. It looked like walking plants. Not just a single thing... but like.. several plants shaping into a larger one." said the first young woman on the program

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"It looked like a walking tree. With a bunch more plants just kinda hanging off of it. Had some vines or something coming out of it's head too. Like that Predator movie only with plants..."

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"Even the children are sure [b][url=https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR9I6opXGi08Hx-iTr7jKZniDKIznaBzFW0gmQcKuYz6jScplls4Q]what they've seen[/url][/b] is some kind of plant. This is Pepper Patterson reporting..."

A couple of hotshot gunmen finally came out of the War Room. Gigas stood up from his seat and stopped watching the news when it got into the 'Superhumans Gone Wild' segment about superhumans in public bars and clubs. It felt like he'd been sitting in that seat for hours, but the men only took around ten minutes. Had Jon been watching through the windows into the War Room, he'd have seen the two men run through something like a Halo video game mixed with a Rainbow Six game. It was only Jon's third time at the War Room. The giant stadium was deep underground, hollowed out of the caves and mines deep beneath the surface of the Appalachians in New Athens. As Gigas, Jon could cut loose. 

"War Room: Load Evil Voltron STRIKE scenario. Local park setting." Jon instructed verbally to the room's controls. 

"Park setting 80% complete." voiced the control panel as the large stadium area came to life with trees, rock formations protruding out of the ground, and at least a half dozen civilian skins taking shape on holo-droids of various sizes. At least one child sized droid was among them. Seven more holo-droids came out and were obviously the one's that were to be Jon's enemies in the War Room.

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The seven holo-droids came out in the form of something akin to a kid's Saturday morning cartoon and Gigas went at them like they were common thugs for hire. They had average hand to hand skills, which was mostly the reason Gigas was training. Soon after they contorted and shaped into a much [url=http://www.evilrobotgames.com/Big-Robot.gif]larger droid resembling this[/url]. Jon created a giant twelve feet tall duplicate that followed through by grabbing his smaller self and tossing it at their roughly fifteen feet tall mechanical adversary. 

~KL~