[b] San Francisco - Jason Korvail - FEMA Camp [/b]
Jason took notice of the surrounding combined fear of those in the camp. The sudden appearance of a superhuman was something that was startling to them. Surely it would have been to him as well had he not been one of them. 

The mere appearance of another foreign being whose power outclassed his own was worrisome. So the fact that he felt confident in his own abilities to face this aggressive man was calming.

“Who you calling a special son of a bitch huh?” Jason started hearing the thoughts from Marcus, and briefly mixing up the thoughts with his actual speech. Something he’d tended to do when he first manifested his telepathy, but had since been getting better at not doing as he spent more time with his powers. He let out an exhale as the man continued his rant, these words aloud for the whole crowd at the FEMA Camp to hear them.

“I understand one thing and that’s you will NOT disrespect me and you will NOT use the tone against me motherfucker.” Jason found his voice oozing with more venom then usual, which meant Jason wasn’t behind the driver seat. Justice had took the reigns, his alternate personality. Jason had retreated within the confines of his mind taking solace in the fact that his other half was taking over to handle the volatile man in-front of them. [I] Don’t worry Jason you just rest buddy, you’ve done enough talking. I think it’s time we take control for the time being teach this little bitch a listen, sometimes might is required to make others see the light[/I] Justice retorted to Justin in a private conversation within the deepest chambers of his own being that only the two split personalities occupied.

Justice took a deep breath then a slow exhale as if him to calm himself down before responding to Marcus. While a stark shift in control of his physical being had shifted, this wasn’t anything noticeable to outsiders. It likely wouldn’t have mattered considering Marcus’s demeanor and his anger towards any commentary that wasn’t directed to this mysterious Angel’s whereabouts. Using his telepathic prowess he scanned the surface thoughts of others in the area to see if he could solve the mystery of the bad tempered man.  [I]Bingo[/I]

“As I said earlier [b]motherfucker[/b] I SAID It would be within our interests to potentially form some sort of alliance before you came at me the wrong way the VERY wrong way. In a matter of minutes I found the bitch you were looking for.” [I][b]But you wanted to go off on your stupid ass rant before allowing me to explain my value you stupid man.[/b][/I] Justice used his powers of thought projection to deliver that last sentiment directly to Marcus’s mind. This allowed him to hear the sound of Justice’s voice within his mind as loud as if he was speaking. “Unfortunately before I can help you I need to teach you some respect.”  Justice then used his telekinetic power to form a choking force around Marcus’s neck. He briefly tightened his grip before releasing it followed by an invisible shockwave of force being emitted towards the ex liberty soldier.  Some audible gasps escaped from the mouths of others in the camp at this display of power, the released shockwave having the unintended consequence of flipping some vehicles in the air parked a few feet from behind where Marcus was standing. 

[b]San Francisco - Dean Rivers - SFPD Station[/b]
“Oh look at this, the nutcase uploaded another video.” In the police office precinct of San Francisco PD two officers sat around at a counter discussing recent events that were transpiring in their state & around the world.  One was a man of mixed nationality Mexican and caucasian, Kenny Johnson who’d been on the force his whole life.

The other was a beat &withered  African American detective named Dean Rivers. He looked to be in his mid 40’s but was not a day older then 38. His life had been filled with much anguish & trauma over the years that it was if he was aging in dog years like some mean youtube commenters suspected about Chicago artist Chief Keef. Dean had taken out his phone to keep up with the Presidential address of the “temporary” Emergency Altered Laws.

He found these laws oppressive & was more concerned about these measures being used to reinforce a more segregated & oppressive era from before the civil rights movement on minorities who didn’t even have Altered Human status. He wasn’t a conspiracy theorist he’d seen the kind of damage some of those paranoid monsters could do both working homicide cases in Chicago & doing narcotics work up here. Still he found it convenient or at the very least very odd that only people of minorities had reported manifesting superhuman abilities from the plague. Perhaps white people had been manifesting powers too but were wise enough to keep shut about it. He’d seen plenty of people updating the world about their newfound superhuman status through public forums including facebook, twitter & even instagram.

As a man who’d been dedicated to fighting drug crime since moving out to California, it never ceased to amaze him the type of incriminating evidence suspects would freely distribute to the Internet. “Hello earth to Dean, you see this shit, I’m not talking about President Forrester, he’s making the tough calls that gotta be made  in spite of people labeling him a racist & a tyrant.  I’m talking about Reaper, the President’s new measures must really have him ticked off that’s two uploads in a day, said this new one was posted 13 minutes after the President’s announcement.” Kenny said with some sarcasm in his voice taunting the Report’s urgency to upload a new message.

Dean was curious on what the Reaper had to say, and asked Kenny to sent him the link. Upon getting it he opened it up to see the Reaper’s message. He was wearing the same garb as usual, but was in a different location than the other video’s shot. It was noisy the sound of people with raised voices, perhaps a protest of some sort. Dean turned to google and began typing in protests in the search bar. Sure enough live news updates showed that there were already protests in Atlanta, Detroit, New York, Baltimore, Baton Rouge, Flint, Gary, Cleveland, and of course not too far from them Los Angeles. He switched his focus back to the video at hand of Reaper who was speaking.

“I have warned you people enough, but now you see President Forrester’s true colors. This nation’s true color. Should the new laws surprise you, absolutely not. This country was BUILT on the backs of enslaved africans and slaughtered native Americans. That spirt of inequality and racism has lived on throughout the years as evident by our current president. It is time for utter & absolute war, destruction of this administration & it’s government! I declare war on the Forrester Administration & all of America! I advise all Altered to side with me against Forrester and participate in the eradication of the United States Empire. It is time for their mighty empire to fall, all great empires have been slaughtered In the past including the Roman Empire, America is no different! An empire built on greed & inequality of others shall not stand not thanks to these powers we have been granted! DESTROY THEM ALL!!!!” Reaper screamed out and the video ended, with the screen fading too black.

Dean exited the video and briefly glanced at some of the disturbing comments scrolling down before completely exiting. “You see how nuts them people are, we need to be having the NSA get the IP address of all of them supporters and bring them in too. Anyone who supports this maniac needs to be treated as an enemy combatant of the country.” Kenny announced as Dean was finally back in the conversation with the fellow officer having finished watching the latest extremist propagada uploaded by Reaper.

“Yeah I’m in agreement with you there, fully.” Dean finally settled, Reaper’s latest message was too much. All of the videos he’d uploaded to the net had been problematic so far, but this one there was no doubt about it he was declaring war on the country. Dean decided to get back to what he was doing, he was an investigating an uptick in missing girls from the San Francisco & Oakland area. The gradual rise in reported kidnappings had started taking place about seven weeks ago, although looking through the notes he could tell the SFPD had deliberately ignored most of the reports about the missing minority girls from Oakland in comparison to the gals who went missing in the San Francisco area where there were notes of actual police manhunts that had been together to scower the area & search for these women to no avail.  To Dean this meant that the same person was behind the kidnappings in both areas, and was taking advantage of the police’s non-chalant attitude about girls missing from Oakland.  [I]Hmm this is interesting not in a good day for sure, but I gotta look into this. I don’t know who’s responsible, but it’s gotta be connected [/I] Dean thought to himself as he continued looking through the notes collected by other officers in their department trying to figure out the missing link between all the missing women in hopes of helping to crack the case & hopefully find these missing girls.

[b]San Francisco - Jace Williams - Hair Salon[/b]
Jace Williams had made it to his next destination after leaving the safe-house. He’d put up all his Shade gear in a backpack, and along with the duffel bag had left both in the trunk of his vehicle. He was stopping by a hair salon that was rising with popularity in the downtown San Francisco area. Of course he wasn’t here to get any work done with his hair, walking inside the store-front he spotted a younger black woman. She had on a tan sweater vest and a red skirt, Lucious light skin, and long flowing black hair with bright green eyes. Spotting Jace enter the woman smiled, as Jace approached her embracing and kissing her.

“How ya doing Nikita.” Jace started off happy to see this girl, the feeling between the two was apparently mutual.

“I’m right baby, mama’s not doing that good tho. Apparently this scumbag’s been extorting lots of people in town, she’s tried to avoid him but he caught up with her today. Shook her down for all the money in the cash register and a little extra.” Nikita coughed up the information to Jace begrudgingly, whilst she had no idea of his alternate identity as Shade. She knew he was willing to do anything to stand up for his family & her. The last thing she wanted to risk was him getting hurt by engaging Lionel, who was a known Altered Human using his powers to scare & blackmail people into paying him for “protection” from himself essentially.

“What?! Are you serious” Jace was appalled at the information she was telling him, that Nikita’s mom had been extorted by this mysterious Lionel figure. He’d heard a little about him, but so far nothing too concrete.  So far he’d only encountered one or two other altered humans during his anti gang/crime crusade and they proved to be fairly easily to kill, there powers posing little threat to his own.  He brought down the pressure on his girl asking relentless questions about the extortion that took place to try to gather clues that would either expose Lionel’s identity to him or grant him his whereabouts.

After about fifteen minutes of going back & forth, as well going to the back to watch the store’s security camera Jace had enough information. Or rather he had as much as Nikita was willing to divulge, she wasn’t trying to give him too much. Watching the security tape he was able to see Lionel’s vicious use of his power, encasing his arms in metal & punching holes in the store walls to intimidate Nikita’s mother. He decided to step outside to clear his head which was full of rage & violent thoughts about wringing Lionel’s neck. As he stood outside on the sidewalk in-front of the store front trying to calm himself down he was alerted to a peculiar sound. Some sort of inhuman moaning, followed by the ghastly screams of two teenage girls. “What the fuck??”

Jace didn’t hesitate and sprinted towards the sound. Taking a page out of white people in a horror movie he decided against minding his business & went to investigate. [I] That shit ain’t sound right at all, sounds like someone’s hurting them girls [/I] Jace thought as he came around the corner entering an ally way where he saw a girl got flung in the air. Jace used his own powers boosting his strength and jumped in the air catching the girl and landing on the ground. The girl in his hands was passed out looking forward he saw another girl running out a back door only for some sort of giant 9 foot gray scale inhumane mutant creature to be chasing her. The mutant lunged forward, claws emerging from it’s hands piercing through the women’s chest causing blood to splatter.

Jace instantly ran to the sidewalk setting the woman down. “SOMEONE GET HER SOME HELP!! SOMEONE CALL AN AMUBLANCE!!!” Jace yelled out to get the attention of others only for the mutant creature to lung forward tackling Jace into a parked car. This caused bystanders who weren’t paying much attention when Jace was pleading with anyone nearby to call for help to be alarmed. The mutant grabbed Jace from the wreckage of the vehicle he smashed him into and threw Jace into the street. Jace’s body flew crashing into an SUV that was coming around the corner. The occupants a woman at the wheel and her boyfriend in the passenger seat were startled by the man crashing into their windshield, sending glass flying into the seats. Both emerged as the mutant roared running towards them, causing the couple to split quickly running down the street hollering.  

“What the motherfucking hell, ah fuck this ain’t good.” Jace realized he’d been thrown across the street from his backpack where his mask was, but the mutant wasn’t giving him any time to get changed. The mutant grabbed Jace and began punching him violently. Jace responded with kicking the beast in the chest then jumping up punching the mutant with a slew of blows before boosting his strength again and and punching the creature in the chest sending it flying and crashing into a street pole. The creature quickly recovered growling, the sounds of police sirens were approaching as the creature wiped some blood from it’s lips, and charged Jace again.

[b]San Francisco - San Francisco County Jail[/b]
At the jail Lori Martinez was not having the best time, locked up after the attempted murder of her ex boyfriend for cheating. A week ago she was a regular college student in a relationship studying to become a nurse. All that had changed when she’d walked in on her boyfriend cheating on in their shared apartment. She had been filled with absolute rage, and took over by emotions. Her eyes had surged with energy much to the shock of everyone in the room, all of which had no idea of her powers except for Lori herself.

She’d kept them secrete, not wanting to alarm her boyfriend or any other people she knew about her new status as an Altered Human. It was her biggest secrete and one she’d hoped to bury with the rising Anti-Altered climate that was brewing in the United States. Beams of energy surged from her eyes blasting through her boyfriend’s chest, while the floozy he was cheating with leapt off the bed screaming in panic. Lori was shocked at the display of power she’d used on him, but didn’t stop there figuring she was already in trouble. Knowing the authorities would get involved she directed her eye beams on the girl he’d been sleeping with in THEIR bed. The girl pleaded for mercy but all that fell on deaf ears as Lori turned to the girl blasting her with the eye beams. She screamed in agony as the beams sizzled through her flesh and her charred body hit the ground in a pool of blood.

After some internal debate Lori had decided to call the authorities, hoping to quell her energy beams and skate by on the two murders. Paramedics were called and thanks to rushing the two victims to the hospital they were able to saved. Lori had confessed to the crime, but stressed the accidental nature of such. The SFPD took no mercy on her superhuman plight & placed her in cuffs. Fearing being caged like an animal for potentially the rest of her life Lori had did the unthinkable using her power on the cop blasting him out of a window and firing on the other cops. The short story she had been beaten profusely by the officers and was now blind-folded in her own secure cell. Her story had made the news like many other violent Altered incidents and she was separated from the other prisoners at the jail. A female was seen approaching the county jail in a fancy vehicle and parking in the visitor/guest section. The auburn haired woman wearing dark shades emerged from her car, she was wearing a tight black skirt that tugged against her curvy figure & wide thighs.

Entering the county jail’s front office she approached two cops sitting at the front desk typing away staring at computer screens in-front of them. The woman held a badge that said FBI and held it up making a noise to alert the officers. “FBI agent Mayas, I’m here to see the prisoner Lori Martinez. I have some questions for her, can you take me to her.”

The officer looked up at Agent Mayas badge then looked at her face, after two more precautionary glances he got caught up nodding his head. “Alright come with me ma’am. We’ve got her eyes wrapped up ya know the freaky bitch shoots lasers out of them. I’m sure you know better then us but don’t let her talk you into removing them or she’ll be using everyone at the station for target practice trying to get out of here.”  The officer led the FBI agent to an elevator. After going to the bottom floor, they walked through a series of hallways & corridors. There was a stench that filled the hallways, the smell of prisoners many of whom weren’t concerned about their hygienics seeing as how they were in jail.

Finally she was led to the outside of the cell, inside the infamous cheater slayer was positioned in a metal chair. She had restraints on both her arms & legs binding her to the metallic seating, whilst they had put together a set up encasing her eyes and upper cranium area In restrictive protective metal. The idea was simple to defend the facility & surrounding guards from her deadly ability. Agent Mayas gave them credit for their ingenuity which had in a sense rendered the threat of her powers within those confines null and void. She allowed a smirk to grace her mouth as she thought about what was to occur next. [I] These men shall witness real power, this place this city reeks of liberalism. Tolerance of that which should not be tolerated by a unified people. I will educate the masses, but this is a wonderful city to deliver the lesson too. Oh thank you Austin even though you failed to reveal the location of the Tartarus Compound your donations to my success have been numerous [/I]

The guard handled her a folder and a set of keys as well as a sedative. “I’m assuming your here for transport lady, them cuffs on your hip aren’t gonna be enough. I suggest you dose her nice and good before you ask her whatever questions ya need to, by the time that’s done she’ll be counting sheep. This is enough to tranquilize an elephant, could kill her, but the world wouldn’t be a worst place if she didn’t make it if you ask me.” The cop sneered at the last comment causing Agent Mayas to elicit a laugh that let him ease up on thinking she might have been one of those agents who was an altered sympathizer and would potentially take offense to his crude dark humor.

With that the officer left the fate of Lori in Agent Mayas hands. Agent Mayas went and knocked on the wall to alert the bonded girl to her entry. “Hello Lori Martinez, my name is Agent Mayas and I am here to liberate you.”

“Liberate me, that’s what you putas call this! That bastard and that stupid bitch deserved it, we weren’t just dating, we were engaged!!! We been together for four years, when I met that bastard he was getting evicted he had nowhere to go! If I wasn’t for me he’d be in the streets! I gave him his life I can take it away.” Lori barked she was un repetenant on the condition she’d left her ex and the skank she caught him with. Understandably so in Agent Mayas eyes by the way she described the history of their relationship. 

“Listen to me very carefully Lori, I understand what you did and why you did it. To be honest I offed my own husband, fucking bastard had the nerve to do me wrong after all we’d been through.” Agent Mayas spoke, the jingling of the keys was heard as she began undoing the bindings on Lori’s feet then her hands freeing them both. Lori let out a gasp shocked that she was gently released and not rough handled like she’d been by all the other officers since her incarceration stint had started.

“What the….you…what the fuck, who are you, what kinda cop are you.” Lori responded still on the defensive after being freed from all but her visual restraints, which in her case was the most lethal & offensive.  “Your not going to free my eyes though, you know I can blow you away.”

“Can and will are two different things Miss Lori. Your not stupid, of course the Altered are dangerous & powerful so they are feared. Just today I’m sure your aware of President Forrester’s new laws, but what do you think is the end goal?”

“Simple, get rid of us, America always hates what’s different, racism but this is different. We don’t just look different, we can do all sorts of things. I can shoot lasers, some of us can fly, others can bring down lightning from the sky maybe even trigger tornadoes and earthquakes by twiddling their thumbs. That type of power ain’t going be tolerated, sooner or later there gonna push the kill button, and for the ones like me were gonna be the first to get the lethal injection with no protest from anyone. I blasted two people, they not gonna understand the backstory of why I did it, what he did to me, they gonna see a super monster who hurt innocent regular people.” Lori spat out venomously with a realization of her situation and being an altered human, and what using her powers to assault others meant for her.

“But your still an American Citizen, and your bond has been posted. I was sent by the FBI to transport you to your next destination. Your being released into your parents captivity, under 24/7 house arrest. As neither your ex fiancé or the woman he was with are dead, you were granted a bond of $500,000 which your parents put their house up for, as a result of your abilities, the conditions are harsh, you are to remain at your parents house 24/7 until your court date, under police surveillance and wearing an ankle monitor. They’ve elected to have the FBI handle the transportation of you to your parents abode as your deemed a high security risk as well as a potential lflight risk but more so emphasis has been placed on security. Partially because with the plague the country’s already on national lockdown so there’s little chance of you escaping the country not without significant financial wealth to acquire means of private flight which you clearly don’t have as a college student & a part time waitress. Now do you want freedom or do you want to blast a federal agent and get killed on the spot.” Agent Mayas finished as she undid Lori’s visual restraints.

“I..I…I want freedom.” Lori relented hearing that her parents had put up their house for her high bond quelled her fury. She didn’t want to make her parents loose everything, it was one thing to risk her own freedom but not theirs as well. “Take me to my parents please.” Lori spoke softer then before a single tear rolling down her face with the realization that her future career as a nurse was over indefinently and that her parents were probably furious with her at what she did powers or no powers.

“Oh see that’s the thing, that’s what I’m suppose to do Lori. I didn’t say that’s what I’m going to do, let me explain. My name is Adora.” The woman smiled at Lori who seemed confused and now somewhat more defensive again,

“What do you mean that’s what your suppose to do, I don’t give a fuck what your name is lady, what’s that gotta do with me.” Lori spat back now wanting some answers, and clearly wanting to be taken to her parents and away from the cops.

“Enough talking let me show you.” Adora grabbed Lori, a surge of energy went off between the two women. Lori began screaming in agony as Adora laughed manically the energy surging between the two growing more viral and powerful. It looked as if Lori’s very life was being drained from her body and into Adora’s. Moments later the cruel display was over and Lori’s body slumped bacon the chair lifeless. Adora grinned as her eyes briefly flickered surging with energy that filled them. Her little stunt had attracted attention as two guards were banging on the outside of the interrogation/containment room alarmed by what she assumed they must have saw on the security cameras in the backroom.

“Oh boys it’s far too late for any of that, now it’s time to teach this stupid fucking city a lesson.” Adora’s eyes surged with red energy and blasted the door down the force of the metallic door crumbling the two guards behind it as all three were sprawled up against a wall they’d been flung into. Adora stepped confidently out the room unleashing her laser vision drilling a hole through the one of the guards hearts then using her eye beams to puncture two deep holes all the way through the second guard’s neck killing both with ease. Then looking up she unleashed her laser beams taking out the security cameras.

“Oh now that was fun, I like this one.” Adora turned around and headed back into the interrogation room. She took one final glance at Lori’s lifeless corpse before using her laser beams to slice her In half, then set her slashed in half body and the rest of the room on fire with her destructive beams. Stepping out into the hallway she began using her beams widely tearing apart the hallway corridor before her appearance shifted into the appearance of Lori Martinez. She looked over at her new body and giggled at her transformation. “Oops oh Lori your parents are going to loose their house for sure after today, the radicals might even kill them.”

Adora blasted her way through the ceiling above her and drilled an exit through every floor to the top. Looking up she burst forward levitating then accelerating through the series of holes she made. Seconds later she was outside floating above the jail looking around at the surrounding area still in Lori’s form. She could hear the sounds of the siren blaring in the jail from her laser eyed rampage and the three murders she’d just committed with her powers,  She hovered higher in the sky and looked away from the city before smirking. “No if I wanna get what I want, I have to do this there.

She jetted forward and landed in the street. Some people pointed upwards at the woman who flew down from the sky. In the tense anti Altered climate the country was in that was not a good idea. One man was pointing at Adora as she landed, while others could be seen getting there cell phones probably to alert the police of an altered woman using her powers in public which was a violation off the new mandates issued by the Forrester Administration. “Oh what the hell are you pathetic fools looking at.” Adora barked at one of the people who had their phone out.

“Oh uh nothing…” The man spoke raising his volume lowering it as he spoke on the phone.” Please send help, I’m serious she just flew down from the sky, no she didn’t hurt anyone by flying, but who knows with those freaks.” As the man spoke in a hushed tone to authorities on the other line he noticed Adora approaching him. A woman next to him tugged at his shoulder to avoid letting her overhear his frantic conversation with the authorities. Taking note of her steady approach he quickly hung up and pocketed his cellular device in his jean. The blaring sound of approaching police sirens was growing louder. Only about ten to fifteen minutes away from the very jail she’d just murdered Lori & the guards at was the national guard checkpoint Karagoz had murdered all the soldiers at.

“Hmm I feel like your lying but that’s alright, listen up everyone that can here me, your time is up. A new era is upon us, the age of Altered Humans being in charge.” Adora yelled out loudly trying to stir up commotion among anyone that heard her words.

“Look lady I don’t know if you skipped your meds this morning, but your not exactly threatening oh wow you can fly, don’t mean you can kick my ass.” Another guy spoke up, a man in his mid 20’s wearing a security uniform who stepped in to intervene with the situation and was also carrying a baton & pepper spray. 

“Oh really? Alright then how’s this for a threat.” Adora smirked and suddenly began growing in size. People around her gasped in fear as the woman grew to a height of 100 feet tall, then 200 feet tall. The hispanic woman finally stopped growing reaching a height that matched some buildings, raising her foot she brought it down stepping on both the security guard and the man who’d called authorities as well as the woman he was with.

“HOWS THAT FOR A THREAT!!!” Adora yelled her voice ringing out thanks to her huge size. Her sudden tremendous growth struck fear into the hearts of others nearby. Her eyes surged with energy before unleashing her eye beams on a nearby office building. The lasers drilled through the building cutting it in half causing the top half to crumble falling into the streets below. 

Taking a step forward into traffic pressing down stepping on cars and innocent people inside of them. People began running as Adora marched forward crushing vehicles & people alike while spewing energy beams from her eyes tearing through the streets. A squad of police cruisers approached, police emerging from thrive vehicles guns drawn at the huge broad. “Oh how cute someone called the cops pathetic.”

As the cops opened fire to no avail as the bullets did nothing to her at her current size. She kicked two of the cruisers sending them flying across the street and crashing into a donut shop. The cops turned to run only for electric sparks to gathe in Adoras hand followed by a stream of lightning being unleashed. The lightning blast struck the cops below slaughtering them all, and continued rummaging through the street destroying people & vehicles caught in the blast.

Screaming & panic spread through the streets of San Francisco as the giant rampage continued through the city. Adora stepped towards a national guard checkpoint that was administering blood tests near a hospital. As the soldiers opened fire Adora brought her foot down crushing the soldiers beneath it and swatting a nearby approaching helicopter causing it to spin out of control crashing into the hospital.