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[center][b]Christopher Arthur III[/b][/center]
	[i][color=c0c0c0]Looks like they’re not going to be on the Super-Friends’ Christmas card mailing list, not that they were on it in the first place.[/color][/i] Chris thought after his exchange with the Alchemyst and Lady Hex.

	These girls obviously had issues with authority figures. While his quidditch practice comment might have been out of bounds, their actions clearly displayed their greenness. Lady Hex made a tactical error by summoning a hurricane-level storm that was equaling debilitating to hero and Hound alike. Her anti-technology spell could have become an equally devastating error if it had magically ignored friendly-fire. The two girls also seemed like they were attached at the hip. They even wore their membership in their magic community like a badge. Alchemyst even had the audacity to call out the competency of the metahuman heroes present.

	It was such a pity that Lyger was entering the Hounds’ base at the same location as the two girls. Although Lyger was a fully capable superhero, he did have some issues being a team player. During the Pax Metahumana crisis, he decided to ditch the heroes who had assembled at Sherman Center to search for the device that would engulf the city with a dome that would grant everyone within it super powers. Lyger had some deep-seated trust issues that made him rely on himself more often than others. Not quite the role model that these two rebellious witches Chris would want for them.

	After the two girls had mockingly called Chris ‘boss man’ and Lady Hex had given him a salute in such a way that made it clear she was not acting in a respectful manner, Chris left the two to their own devices. Hopefully Radiance can be the response adult of the group.

	While Chris was on route to the helicopter pad, he saw two separate lightning flashes around his destination. On the rooftop, Pantheon was hunched down on a single knee. He seemed oblivious to the handful of Hound soldiers who had their weapons aimed at the man.

	[color=c0c0c0]“Come on, tough guy. This is no time for sleeping on the job.”[/color]

	Meanwhile, a man decked out in gear similar to the other present Hounds was boarding the advanced battle copter that the human supremacist group had been deploying.

	[color=c0c0c0]“I guess this explains how you thugs could have taken out S.T.R.I.K.E. in one fell swoop,”[/color] Chris realized when he saw the identity of this man, whose name was Travis Murdock. [color=c0c0c0]“Something like that would definitely require someone who used to be on S.T.R.I.K.E.’s payroll.”[/color]

	“I’m surprised you heroes took so long to connect the dots, despite our usage of S.T.R.I.K.E. technology in our attacks.”

	[color=c0c0c0]“You did leave me comatose with that sky laser. Considering the circumstances, I think I’ve been doing pretty well.”[/color]

	“Well, if you don’t mind, I have places to be,” Murdock told Chris before turning to his men. “Take care of these abominations.”

	The five Hounds opened fire on the heroes who had landed on the Hound’s rooftop escape location. As they unloaded their rifles, the men slowly retreated towards the helicopter with their weapons still locked on the heroes. These five men then hopped onto their escape copter, still firing at the heroes to keep them busy while they helicopter began to rise off the ground.

	[color=c0c0c0]“We need to ground that copter,”[/color] Chris alerted the other heroes, [color=c0c0c0]“but Murdock is worth more to us alive than dead. We can’t just blow it out of the sky.”[/color]