[hr][center][img]https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/1400/f5680f53522101.59377852a7113.png[/img][/center][hr][sub][color=FDAD07][b]Washington DC, The District of Columbia[/b]
July 4th, 2018[/color][/sub]

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[color=9CC0D1]“God damn it. They’re turning up like fucking cockroaches. It’s an infestation.”[/color] Senator Russell Abernathy dug his hands into his face, the stress of the last few months starting to finally get to him.

Since the appearance of Superman, Russell had been nervous – but when Wonder Woman showed up in his own city of origin it made him anxious, and when Russell got anxious he tended to make very impulsive and [i]stupid[/i] decisions. Metahuman concerns were only growing more and more and senators like Henry Gyrich wanted decisions to be made yesterday so they could start preparing for the future. 

Problem was that Gyrich also wanted a lot of things. He wanted to give cutbacks to the technology sector. He wanted to promote government think-tanks and transfer military spending towards domestic super-science. He wanted to increase incentives for tech firms like OsCorp, Trask, and Stark to develop better ways to counteract superhuman vigilantism. To Russell Abernathy, it all sounded like it was spending money they didn’t have and putting too much faith in people he had been regulating since the beginning of his political career. But at the end of the day, it was either let these super-powered vigilantes go unchecked or support the Gyrich Act. Neither was an option Russell particularly cared for.

But how long could he as a United States Senator sit on his thumbs and morals?

He read the news. He knew what was going on. The world just wasn’t ready for superhuman beings that could fly and deflect bullets, no matter what their intentions were. Superman had caused an international crisis with China. Wonder Woman had hospitalized dozens upon dozens of people in the course of only a month. And that wasn’t accounting for the mutant scare that was going around in every major city in the United States.

[color=9CC0D1]“What the fuck am I going to do?”[/color]

He sighed as he moved his hands to his desk.

[color=9CC0D1]“The world blinks and we’re dealing with caped vigilantes and superhuman incursions. How long is it going to be until someone who [i]wants[/i] to do harm shows up? What if we get a Superman-type with the mind of Charles Manson next week?”[/color] He muttered under his breath.

Russell supposed that he was just going to have to grit his teeth. The Gyrich Act was a necessary evil, even if it went against the platform he had held for years. But back then the idea of superhumans and masked vigilantes were the works of fiction. The Act was only the first step for Gyrich and Russell knew it, but if anything smelled wrong in the future Russell would be sure to fight it.

The senator moved from his seat and grabbed his coat off a nearby coat rack, it was time to go home. But in the morning Gyrich and his supporters would have a long talk with him and his. And by the end of next week, America would know the Gyrich Act was pushing through.[/indent]