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Philadelphia was burning. 

The moment that Icon saw the broadcast about the multiple Hounds attacks he dropped what he was doing and took flight. From all of the reports he went straight to the City of Brotherly Love, or at least what was left of it. He chose to go to Philly first because those reports made it clear that is where he would be able to do the most good, as much destruction as had been wrought on the city; it was in pretty good condition compared to the other two cities. 

But that wasn’t saying much.

Many of the iconic landmarks that made Philly a must see for many people, Independence Hall, the Rocky Statue, Frankin Square and even Geno’s Steaks had been razed. The Liberty Bell was gone, and the US Mint was in ruins. 
In his time as a hero, Icon had seen a lot. He had seen men and monsters do unspeakable things, yet he had never seen such wholesale destruction. As he did what he could to help, mostly pulling survivors, and those not so fortunate from the rubble, a persistent feeling gnawed at his gut.

Guilt. 

He felt guilty that he had let things go this far. He knew that he should have gone after that satellite the moment that the Hounds of Humanity had used it to destroy Chris Arthur’s home. However, try as he might, he couldn’t find it. He didn’t know where it was, or if it had even survived its initial attack. It must have been a mobile satellite, or cloaked with some sort of stealth technology. The fact was, when he had looked for it, it didn’t seem to be there. 

Then he let it go.

He never investigated it further. He never thought that the Hounds would use it in such a massive scale. He had underestimated the depths that the Hounds would sink, he underestimated the atrocities that they would commit in the name of their cause.

He underestimated the Hounds of Humanity.

He would not make that mistake again.

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Lyger stood in a stunned silence as he watched the footage of the simultaneous Hounds attacks which left two cities wiped from the face of the earth and another in ruins. He had suspected that the Hounds of Humanity were planning something big, however, he never imagined that they were capable of the utter destruction that they had wrought. 

“Harry, are you seeing this?” he said into the com in his mask without taking his eyes from the large video screen in the middle of Crown Square. 

“Yes. It’s all over the news. I’ve never seen anything like it.” His mentor confirmed. “Kyle, this…this is bad.”

Lyger had no response. The sights on the large screen shaken him to the core and left him utterly speechless. How did they allow things to get this bad? Why didn’t they take out the satellite the moment they learned about it? 

As far as Lyger was concerned, the blood of those lost in these attacks was just as much on his hands, and the hands of the other so-called heroes as it was on the Hounds. They failed to act when they should have and that was a mistake that he was determined not to repeat. 

“Harry, how did we…” before he was able to finish asking just how they’d managed to screw up so badly, an electronic voice broke in over his com system.

“We are currently experiencing a crisis. Please report to Sherman Center immediately.” The robotic female voice said. Lyger did not know how Arthur had managed to send him the message, either he had integrated some sort of device into his tech or Arthur had hacked his systems. 

Neither possibility was good.

“What the fu….”