[center][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/445351464320106498/870668188650733618/SB4.png[/img][/center][indent][sub][color=white][b]SEASON ONE[/b][/color][color=e20025] Sensation & Wonder[/color][/sub][sup][right][b][color=white]SUPERBOY #10[/color][/b] [url=https://youtu.be/IEF2p2csy1w][color=e20025]Multiversal Mayhem: TIE-IN[/color][/url][/right][/sup][/indent][indent][indent][indent][hr][/indent][/indent][/indent][indent][color=white][sub][b]Brooklyn [color=e20025]♦[/color] New York City[/b][/sub][/color][/indent] [indent] A raging inferno consumed an apartment complex in Flashbush, Brooklyn. Its redbrick exterior was pockmarked with plasma blasts from the initial Chitauri landing- though the aliens had advanced farther down the borough, they'd left a path of suffering and destruction in their wake. Many of the building's residents that had managed to escape the blaze had gathered outside on the sidewalk. Some paced, cellphones to their ears as they tried to contact help. Others performed first aid on those wounded among their number. A few had gathered buckets and were taking hammers to a nearby fire hydrant. Superboy hovered a hundred feet above it all, taking in the situation. Shutting out the world he focused his hearing on the burning structure, trying to locate those still trapped inside. They were scattered across every floor, blocked from any easy exit. The fire escape had partially collapsed, its metal frame twisted and melted from a now all-too familiar super-heated energy. The main halllways's floor had fallen in on itself; seemed he'd have to make his own entrance. He busted through the ceiling feet first, landing with a heavy thud in the middle of a living room. An aging, balding man stood from his crouch in the corner, a young boy in his arms. The kid had a soot-stained Spider-Man shirt wrapped around his face to keep out the smoke. "You trying to bring this place down?" The old man yelled. [color=lightblue]"I'm [i]tryin'[/i] to save your ass, ya geezer."[/color] Superboy approached, wrapping his arms around each of them. The elder insisted, however, pushing against the Kryptonian. "Fire's already compromised it as is. Break the wrong wall and everybody in here's dead, get it?" Superboy quieted. After a moment's pause, he nodded. "Windows are your best bet. Interior walls are non-load bearing, so if ya gotta get from a bed room to a bathroom you oughta be fine." He explained, finally allowing Superboy to pick him and his nephew up. They returned to the center of the room where he'd made his original entrance before taking off into the sky. "This your first building fire?" [color=lightblue]"Search and rescue ain't exactly my brand."[/color] Superboy muttered, making a careful landing on the sidewalk so he could set his two charges down. [color=lightblue]"But I 'ppreciate the advice."[/color] "And I appreciate you saving my boy. Now get back in there." The man stepped away to pull his nephew into a tight embrace. A strange feeling fluttered in Superboy's gut even as he turned to take flight again. It was the first time he'd felt anything like it in the short time he'd been in the public eye. Best not to dwell on whatever it is now- he needed to focus on the mission at hand. There were still sixteen people inside and there was no telling how long they had. Superboy breached the building again, this time tucking and rolling through a glass pane instead of brick and mortar. He was forced to move painfully slowly as he lifted people out of their home. The human body wasn't designed to take the G-force that Superboy could dish out on a casual flyby. If he took off too quick or turned too suddenly there was a real chance he'd tear someone up. It was frustrating, anxiety-inducing even, to listen to the structure's integrity fluctuate while he moved at the speed of molasses. [i][color=lightblue]'Come on, come on. I don't have time for this.'[/color][/i] Something metal began to screech as Superboy ferried a couple through the air. He twisted around just in time to watch a tear spread across the brick siding of the building. It spread like a spiderweb across a huge portion of the complex. [color=lightblue]"Shit! No!"[/color] Panicked, he shot toward the ground and landed fast enough to break the boyfriend's rib. Leaving him behind with his fiance, Superboy raced to the side of the building and dug his fingers into the brick. With the tiniest grunt of exertion he tugged, keeping the two halves of the wall from fully tearing away from each other. Other parts of the building were still mid-collapse. He could hear flooring give out from somewhere inside, and the crack was spreading rapidly. Someone was yelling for help. He looked up to see a woman halfway hanging out of a window and waving down at him. She was right in the path of the coming collapse. If he let go of the wall he could grab, sure, but at this point Superboy was the only thing keeping half the building together. What happened to everyone inside if he let go? His mind raced as he tried to think of a solution. There had to be a way to save her. There had to be- A sound played in his ear, distant yet approaching rapidly. Oddly familiar. Was that... [color=lightblue]"Jump!"[/color] He yelled up at her. [color=lightblue]"Trust me, someone'll catch you!"[/color] [/indent]