[h3][i]Intern Dorms
Floor 15
Stark Tower
Midtown Manhattan, New York, USA
July 4th, 2023 8:30PM EDT[/i][/h3]

After his first month in the internship program, Danny Davis knew he loved living in Stark Tower. There was always something new to discover every day. He also loved being out of high school, and being away from the bullies that made his life hell for so many years. Now he was surrounded by his kind of people!

David, one of his fellow interns had told him and his twin that he had something to show them. Most of the interns were out trying to see the fireworks. Danny had zero interest in joining them. Crowded places, obnoxious music, even more obnoxious people, it just wasn’t Danny’s scene at all. He had planned to spend the night in his dorm room playing video games. He knew whatever David had to show them was going to be interesting. When they arrived in the common area they saw David on his laptop in the center of the room. Danny smirked as he watched his sister run up to him, and lean over his shoulder to watch the screen. He could tell she liked him. Danny couldn’t blame her, he was smart and adorable. The braces actually added to it. He would try to go after him too if he had any kind of nerve. He remembered the last time he confessed his feelings to a boy he liked and shuddered. Besides, David was probably straight, and it was against twin code to go after your siblings man.

David told them what he had done, and Danny was a little envious he had the nerve to do that. He knew he didn’t have the guts to pull something like that off. Danny watched the screen and saw some of the best scientific minds gathered in one room. Danny was awestruck. At least until he heard what they were talking about... How could they possibly be so immoral? 

Danny frowned, and wrung his hands until David called out to them to follow him. Caty looked at him, and followed. Danny took a deep breath. He still wasn’t sure about all this, but followed after them.

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[h3][i]Hunter’s Point South Park
Long Island City, Queens, New York, USA
July 4th, 2023 9:13PM EDT[/i][/h3]

Naturally, there was a ton of traffic. That was normal for New York, and on a Holiday especially. They only barely managed to arrive just in the nick of time. Danny still wasn’t sure what they were going to do once they arrived. Were a bunch of partygoers really going to believe a few interns?

David managed to convince one person of the danger. Even so, they were running out of time, so David decided to manually stop the mist dispersion, and jumped into the river. Meanwhile, Caty ran up to the stage, grabbed a mic, and made an announcement for everyone to everyone to evacuate. [color=f49ac2]“P-p-please listen...”[/color] Danny mumbled. He wasn’t that good at making impassioned speeches to the public. His sister was better at that sort of thing.

Unfortunately, Danny heard the sound of a cannon before Caty could finish her speech. He saw Caty run towards the river, in a misguided attempt to swim after David. Danny immediately grabbed her hand to stop her. [color=f49ac2]”Please don’t...”[/color] He was about to say something about not putting herself in harms way, but then he felt something bite his hand, and he immediately let go. [color=f49ac2]“Ow!”[/color] He shouted, as he winced from the pain. The bite left behind a small red mark. He also saw a spider crawl away and onto Caty’s hand.

Then the park was covered in a dense blue fog. It was hard to see, and even harder to breathe as Danny was having coughing fits. As quickly as it started, the fog stopped. It seemed like everything fine, but that didn’t last long. People around them started to bleed areas that weren’t supposed to be bleeding. Everyone that had started bleeding soon fell to the ground and began seizing. For some reason though Danny was fine, and so was Caty.

Caty ran off to check on David, and Danny took off in the opposite direction towards the stage to see if there were anyone else that weren’t seizing. Danny had to carefully navigate around a bunch of people on the ground having a seizure. [color=f49ac2]“Oh this isn’t good. This isn’t good at all...”[/color] He muttered to himself.

Eventually, he made his way to the stage. He was relived to find others that were unharmed. Now comes the hard part, actually having to talk to them... [color=f49ac2]”Um... excuse me? Um... hi... I-I-I’m Danny... Um... I’m sorry about all of this... This is really terrible. Um... Is everyone alright?”[/color] He asked while nervously shuffling his feet and avoiding making eye contact with anyone.