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[CENTER][I][h1][color=orange]Jonah Hanes[/color][/h1][/i][/CENTER]

[Color=orange]Time:[/color] Early Afternoon
[Color=orange]Location:[/color] San Francisco, Liberty Head Quarters
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Jonah was still rattled from what happened, the man he’d killed in Oakland had a wallet on him. Digging through his wallet he obtained his license, his name had been Tommy Ford. He’d driven himself & Angela back to liberty with Tommy’s body in the back. After dropping Angela off and having Liberty agents escort her to the medical infirmary he decided to handle Tommy. For the same reason he murdered him was the same reason he didn’t want this killing to be reported to Liberty.

The new rules Forrester passed could potentially affect him, and his people not just minorities. That was something he couldn’t allow, his mind was racing. Up until now he assumed his kind couldn’t be tainted with the curse of the altered but now he was reeling with confusion & doubt. The seeds of uncertainty had been planted within the confines of his mind. This information was something he didn’t even dare pass along to Nathan Forrester.

He didn’t see the powers of the altered humans as gifts, but genetic anomalies that belonged in the hands of second class citizens. Growing up he’d never been a fan of Superman, but had immense respect for Batman. Superman at his core may have looked like the people he grew to adore & respect as the superior first class citizens but the case. Superman hailed from the planet krypton, and alas even though Clark Kent appeared like him he was an alien. An alien posing as an American, an extraterrestrial violator of America’s immigration policy. Not only that he wielded unworldly powers that tipped all scales of power in his favor. Such power that wasn’t attainable by the masses and those that could truly be trusted was scary.

As a young lad one movie that had particularly affected him in a bad way was War of the Worlds. The whole concept of an alien invasion, other worldly creatures descending from the skies with superior weaponry & intelligence to impose their will & carnage on humanity terrified him. While the flick wasn’t intended to be a horror movie it had that effect on him. Hailing from a family who for generations were against all forms of interracial intertwining, he was taught of his inherent superiority to those whose color was not of his own. He whole heartedly believed that, and felt the statistics of blacks & other races committing more crimes among other negative behaviors in America proved he was in the right.

In his eyes Tommy was no different than Clark Kent. A foreigner, an outsider who had the appearance of the master race while parading around with characteristics that were not of it. Which could only mean one thing, he was NOT of them. The altered were a curse that only America had been unfortunate enough to be accosted with the same as the energy storm & energy plague that preceded it. The best thing about these new rules the President had passed was it reminded him of a greater era his father had longed for a return to. The time of great policies such as Segregation & Jim Crow, a far cry from the true glory of the world before the civil war that he regrettably never got to experience.

But it was something that was in the back of his mind as well as other intelligence agents that thought like him. While there were many in minority communities who felt these powers were a blessing from God, or a reward for enduring endless suffering for centuries at the hands of there so called oppressors he did not share those same beliefs. [Color=orange]”I don’t know what you are, but I won’t let you tear down everything that I’ve worked for. I won’t let you destroy the goodness the Forrester’s have put into action, to ruin the great era the Forrester Administration is trying to usher upon this country.”[/color]

Jonah was addressing Tommy’s corpse in the trunk of his car, as he was headed towards his destination. He regretted informing Angela of Super Punchs true ethnicity, she was a loose end. Because of his rambling his partner was now a liability that had to be repaired. She’d been loyal to a fault, and had been at his side faithfully since the start of Liberty’s formation. His mind raced to figure out an answer, a solution to the predicament he’d put himself with by informing her of what he saw underneath the mask.

Still the utter shock he’d been put through had caused him to just say what he saw. The sound of Siri informing him that he arrived at his destination caused him to snap back into focus. He emerged from the vehicle and took a look around to ensure he wasn’t followed. Then he set about with phase one of his own solo project, operation cover-up. He’d went to a graveyard that was not close to downtown. He dug up a grave of someone who’d been long dead & dumped Tommy’s bad back in before burying him again.

Once it was all said and done, and making sure there was no one around watching he left back to HQ. Tommy’s body was six feet under, and for now there was no trace of the white altered.  Once he was back in the HQ had Patricia request Kalina to come to his office. She’d been with Liberty for a little over five weeks, a Nigerian woman in her late 20’s. She’d attended college out here & ended up getting work as a therapist/councilor allegedly wanting to help others overcome mental trauma as that was something she & her siblings dealt with immensely in her childhood.

“Director Hanes” Kalina addressed him as she stepped into the office, and closed the door behind her. Due to the nature of her ability she had been working with the director quite frequently since her recruitment to Liberty.

“Just the person I was looking for, come I need you to purge the memory of my partner in the liberty medical center. She overheard some news that’s quite troubling, and I don’t want to share this burden of awareness with her.” Jonah spoke implying he waned her memories of the recent confrontation wiped away.

“I see…it must be quite imperative if you want her memories of the entire assignment you two just worked cleaned away.”

“Yes but that’s for me to know and you to do. After all you get paid to follow instructions, not question them, come o we need this done now,  and do not speak of this to anyone you understand, or there will be SEVERE consequences for you & your future with a position here will most certainly be terminated.” Jonah responded knowing how much she valued the benefits for working for Liberty versus her previous work.

Shortly after the two were seen in the medical room where Angela was laying in a bed bandaged up and heavily sedated after her first round of treatment by Liberty’s doctors. Kalina placed her hand on Angela’s forehead and unleashed her power. The memories of the conflict against Tommy were swiped away, then the memories of going to Oakland to confront Super Punch, and finally the memory of being assigned the case at all. Kalina hummed almost in-audibly as she deleted the memories from Angela’s mind, “It is done.”

“Good job.” [I]Well that’s that, the body is buried, Angela has no memory of the assignment & Kalina won’t talk if she wants to keep her job & her life for that matter. Now I have to figure out what the deal with Tommy was, as well as the altered Green stupidly helped obtain more powers. The mystery continues to deepen with no sign of a final unraveling in sight.[/I]

“Yes sir, as always working with you is a pleasure.” Kalina shot back at Jonah and took a slight bow as Jonah had always instructed her to do when finishing an assignment. It was somewhat demeaning but this is the highest salary she’d ever achieved in her life. Far more then she made addressing other damaged people such as herself in hopes of helping them heal, something she herself had still not yet done.

“Right let’s get out of here, we’ve got work to do.” Jonah escorted Kalina out the room, and flipped the light switch off before gently closing the door. After Kalina returned to her post, Jonah informed the Liberty Doctors that his brief visit with her was short and had ultimately proved un-productive. As the doctor had instructed him that Angela wouldn’t be waking up with the pain medication flowing through her body, this worked out even more in Jonah’s favor.

Despite the many curve-balls he was being thrown, he still was trying to catch as many of them as possible. He recalled Tommy’s dying words about how he was on the wrong side & that Oakland would go up in flames. Now he had more then just Lori Martinez to focus on, the mystery of Tommy had his attention as well.