After the incident with the Snapper in Central Park, things had been relatively calm for Edward.  He even got a bit of fame for his role in the incident a week later in the form of a rare back-to-back card, one side showing him raising up the wall of earth to stop Finch and his bank robbers while the other showed his cloud over the Snapper.  Nathan had been ecstatic when he saw the card in one of the shipments for the store, and so Edward was forced to look up the value of the card and sell it to the teen at his special employee discount which still cost Magus's biggest fan a full day's wages.

Another week later, though, and things were getting weird, even for Epic City.  The first was a giant wielding a hammer that the High Island himself personally removed.  But then more powerful Epics began to show up in the city.  After the giant with the hammer, the next person to show up was a powerful telekinetic who picked up everything around him in a swirling cloud of debris.  And when the Epics stepped in to try to stop him, he defeated them all.  Even Guilt, who, during her short time in the city, had proven herself to be a powerful Epic, had been killed by the destructive telekinetic.  Edward had no idea what was going on, but whatever it was, it couldn't be good.  He only hoped that whatever it was would leave him alone.

[@Regitnui][@Old Amsterdam]