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

[Color=orange]Time:[/color] Afternoon
[Color=orange]Location:[/color] San Francisco, Liberty HQ 
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Jonah was reeling from the obstacle they were facing. What started off as fear of a white altered had become both better & worst in the past three days. Whilst he had concluded that they weren’t about to face a slew of people like him that mattered manifesting powers, instead they were left facing a much more sinister plan. As Tommy had predicted Oakland had been engulfed in gang violence, a kind of which they’d never seen before.

After dealing with Tommy, reports started pouring in of bank robberies, jewelry store heists, shops being extorted & the culprits being abnormally strong & highly resistant to traditional gunfire just like Shade. Except they weren’t Shade, as in not as powerful as him but still the threat wasn’t one to be ignored.

Boost was the real culprit behind this sudden surge in enhanced gangsters that plagued the town. It was a synthetic drug that seemed to grant people temporary abilities. The powers derived from this power granting formula included increased strength, durability & reflexes. Aside from that it also had the effect of raising the potency of or like the namesake “Boosting” the powers of regular Altered. Right now along with hunting Lori, finding the source of Boost production & halting it was one of his & Liberty’s main priorities.

While it was clear that this Boost substance originated from somewhere in the Bay Area, it had spread to neighboring stats. Reports were pouring in of incidents with thugs terrorizing their community under the effects of boost, as well as regular altered criminals getting their hands on it to facilitate their crimes with more impunity than before. 

“Sir” Patricia called out, Jonah looked up to see his assistant peaking her head through the door. Jonah nodded and waived his hand to let her in. She was truly one of the few people who he felt entirely had his back in the grim situation they were facing. The nation was in a state of duress, and many in the military worried that if these antics continued destabalizing the country from within they’d be perceived as weak on an international scale & potentially open to attack from their enemies who might want to take advantage of this chaos that was tearing this democratic powerhouse apart.

“What’s going on Patricia? Any news about figuring out the source of Boost, or more on Lori’s whereabous? Hell even some news on Shade or Marcus at this point would be a godsend, we’re in the middle of a war on our own turf and right now it feels like we’re starting to loose this battle.” Jonah admitted to her something he wouldn’t normally tell his subordinates. But Patricia was one he trusted, and these circumstances weren’t exactly atypical of what the director was used to dealing with.

“It’s Co-Director Bates, she wishes to have a meeting with you it’s in regards to Boost & some intel she’s managed to obtain from the military, “ Patricia answered to her clearly stressed out director. “Don’ be so hard on yourself Director Hanes, the events that are transpiring are not entirely under your control and being in a state of duress will not help to solve this situation. Forgive me for speaking out of term sir.” Patricia added at the end not wanting to seem as though se was directing the director.

“No your fine, I probably needed that right now. Send in Bates, I’d like to her what she has to say.” Jonah concluded, at this point any news would be good to hear a bout the situation & a potential resolution.

Patricia departed, and within the next ten minutes Chloe Bates was sitting in his office. She was the co-director of Liberty, but she’d been operating on the other side of country since he’d first arrived in California to investigate the Salzaras Cartel & their recruitment of Altered humans to aid them with trafficking narcotics over the closed US Borders. Chloe took a seat on the opposite end of his desk and placed a slightly thick yellow folder on top of it. Jonah reached for it and opened it starting to flip through the files & read the intel Chloe had presented.

“So as you can see Director Hanes, the US Military has voiced interest in this Boost formula. They believe that if were able to confiscate it at the source, it’ll prove to be an invaluable tool against the current altered threat & give our soldiers including the national guard that’s been deployed a necessary edge against the circumstances were facing. The Forrester Corporation has communicated to me, that they were in the process of working on a drug with similar functions last year known as Project Krypton, but that there lead scientist Lester Hines as well as three other high ranking scientists o the project ended up departing after a series of unreasonable differences.” Chloe continued speaking to Jonah on all the details they had about the situation & how the military wanted to proceed with this information.

“I see, the most pertinent danger of this substance is not the abilities for lack of better word that it grants, but the fact that it can enhance the already dangerous altered populace that we’re fighting to control. The Military & Forresters getting their hands on it & mass producing it, could be the nail in the coffin that makes opposing altered terrorist forces such as those led by Reaper, an edge against us in neutralyzing the threat across the nation, at the same time I can understand the concept. T’s no different then how we’ve incorporated altered humans among our ranks, and from what I’ve heard how certain branches of the military have refused to revoke membership/participation of soldiers who are discovered to have abilities. From a field report I read, one such soldier played a vital role in almost derailing Lori Martinez’s rampage on San Francisco a few days ago.” Jonah said in reference to Sergeant Gonzalez & his teleportation antics, which the navy had tried to use in conjunction with the national guard first responders to nullify the threat.

“Correct we just wanted your input before we move forward with this operation, we’ve yet to get any samples. But we have managed to nab three verified Boost users, two in California and one in Utah. Of course we haven’t yet been able to speak, and then there’s the matter of there pesky “Rights”. The emergency altered act which gives us less restrictions on tactics we can use against the enemy, don’t apply to them as they are not truly altered but simply regular humans using what amounts to the pinnacle of performance enhancing drugs to aid their crimes. Plus from what I’ve read, the crimes we’ve nabbed those three on aren’t anything majorly serious like murder, but more so petty theft & extortion.” 

“Still they were seen using abilities correct? That’s under our jusidication, go ahead and put in an order to get them a transportation to Tartarus. From there they won’t have any communication with the outside world to derail our investigation & we can drill into them to get what we need to locate any source of Boost, I’ve got my own lead out here in the bay that I’m about to carry out.” Jonah did indeed have his own missions o carry out, he was still worried about Agent Fields who was still recovering after the confrontation with Tommy a few days ago. The blows she’d suffer from combatting him were serious and she was still recovering in, some medical professionals had even suggested that it was a miracle that she was making a full recovry or any recovery at all.

“Understood, I thought you might say that, I believe either way we go, we need to surpress any sort of information about this Boost from reaching the public. As far as the energy plague itself there’s been an uptick in cases, and there’s worry that a new variant is starting to manifest, right as were o the cusps of rushing to develop a vaccine. Which in theory will not only help with stopping the plague itself, but could potentially help halt any new cases of minorities becoming altered humans.” Chloe finished her statement to the head director, effectively communicating her stance on everything that was going on and how they should handle it.

After a few more minutes the meeting was adjourned, and both directors went their separate ways. Chloe went along to place the command to have the three suspects they had detained who’d used boost to enhance their criminal activities to the Tartarus Compound for further more unhinged investigation tactics, as well as communicating to the Military & Forrester Corporation that if they were able to seize any samples of boost, that Director Hanes had given the okay to begin efforts to both study it’s properties as well as try to replicate it for their own usage if possible.

Jonah tucked the files in his briefcase and left the office, instructing Patricia to handle communications while he was out. He simply told her he had a lead he was going to follow himself, and didn’t require any back-up. As he got into his Jeep & started the car he took out the files that Chloe gave him and glanced through them once more. “Lester Hines huh, I thought I recognized that name. That same scientist was reportedly in communication with SFPD in regards to a similar subject a few days ago, an officer Dean Rivers was the one in charge of that investigation and. He actually went through with it. If there’s anyone whose going to have any information about this, and Project Krypton it’s that guy and I have a hunch that he knows more about this whole situation then he’s letting on.” 

Starting up his car, he mad his way out of the Liberty office parking garage. He was a man on a mission, to combat the various rising threats to national security that lately had left him pacing around the office in search of an answer to the many many problems he was facing. Worst of all was the fact that he was getting berated for his actions on all fronts, including the home one. He’d come to find out his wife had begun to develop sympathies towards the altered populace, going so far as to claim that one had “saved her life”. Although he’d grilled her he hadn’t been able to get her to confess to what exactly she mean by that.

But, what he did know was that meant she was all ears to her friend dawn & the Altered lives matter movement. The last thing he needed as a director was his own wife getting involved with that situation, but he’d reached out to his father who offered to help him with the situation. Jonah put those thoughts out of his mind as he reached a red light. He couldn’t allow issues from his home life to creep & seep into his professional one. When it came to family matters & problems, those needed to be handled by family.  For now his primary lead and the target he was going towards was the man of the hour himself, Lester Hines.

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[CENTER][I][h1][color=green]Floyd Banker[/color][/h1][/i][/CENTER]

[Color=green]Time:[/color] Afternoon 
[Color=green]Location:[/color] San Francisco, The Condo
[Color=green]Interaction:[/color] [@FunnyGuy] Michael Hayes 
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Floyd was shook from the events that had transpired this morning. Paige making her way into their home armed and ready to silence him. Working with Rita had culminated into so many problems, that he’d been thinking of cutting her off. The whole debacle with Adam Levely & Shade that had taken place a few days ago was just another reason, aside from the fact that his warehouse was wiped out.

Still at least they’d managed to get together the funds needed to purchase TAP, and now he was the legal owner of Taste of Paradise. Another good thing right now was that Lionel hadn’t reared hi ugly head around & popped into the premises as of late since his purchase. But right now the metal skinned thug was the least of his worries, Lori Martinez had personally become a problem for him & not just with the Network. She’d intruded the premises of this home just like Paige had, but with far more power & if not for the belief that she already had the same powers as him or Mike he believed she would have come after them as well to drain them as she’d done Paige.

He’d dragged the body of the now truly lifeless ex officer up to the attic, they’d need to get rid of her and fast. He was still worried that she may have alerted others or at least one party of her intent to “Visit” his home. The only thing that made him feel somewhat comfortable with the situation was the possibility the maybe she indeed didn’t tell anyone she was gonna swing by his condo as she’d come loaded & ready to blast his brains out.

He went into the kitchen area and sat down at the table in-front of his plate. As he started to dig into his food he turned to look at Mike who was conscious again after the confrontation with Lori. “Mike we’ve got to do something, as for Paige her body’s up there in the attic. She’s really dead, it seems that Lori chick can take powers like not copy them but really take them. That explains how she was able to do everything that took place during the attack downtown. First off I was thinking of grabbing Lori’s body and flying over to the ocean and dumping it. I think we have a better chance not getting in trouble going that route then going digging & trying to bury her ourselves anywhere around here. Two, I think Lori is a problem that me and you should try to handle man. I think she didn’t try to take our powers, because as far as she knew we both had electricity which she already seemed to have. But she’s wrong about both of us neither of us have that power, it’s just something we can do with our abilities. Plus we don’t even know how she found Paige at our spot, whether she was following her or had some type of power to track her. I think we should try to get stronger, get a better grasp on our powers and then…kill her ourselves.” Floyd concluded to his roomate, he wasn’t trying to take the government’s side. However Lori posed a threat to altered not only because she could take powrs, but because her actions were sure to result in more anti altered behavior & measures if she wasn’t stopped.