[color=gold][h1][center]Queen of Gold[/center][/h1][/color]

Since the skirmish in the park, Kate had resumed her normal life. In the time since she had arrived on Earth, she had managed to acclimate to the culture more quickly than she expected, and her day to day life was mostly indistinguishable from a typical rich Middle Park East socialite woman. The only real clues that she was something else entirely were her occasional Khobalian turns of phrase, and her habit of finding street-level crime and taking care of it. And really, she didn't have to work to find crime here; it was so frequent that it seemed to follow her around, attracted like moths to a flame. If this was her new war to wage, Kate had to admit that it wasn't very exciting. She liked doing good of course, but she yearned for real combat. In the mean time, shopping was an excellent way to pass time and get what humans called "dopamine" flowing.

On one such day, she was walking in the fashion district when she overheard the crackle of a nearby police officer's radio. Something was going on at a superhero academy, which Kate didn't know existed until she heard it on the radio.

[color=gold][i]An academy?[/i][/color] she thought, surprised. [color=gold][i]There are enough superheroes to have a whole academy, and I haven't seen a single one in the months I've been on this planet? What are they doing? Where have they been?[/i][/color] Kate had to admit, she was surprised she hadn't run into more villains either. And she was very surprised that that chaos woman who was apparently in love with her hadn't come knocking either.

The cop's radio sounded urgent. It seemed they were under attack from a super of some sort. Multiple heroes already down, dragged into the ground...

[color=gold]"Wait."[/color] Kate stopped in her tracks. That sounded familiar. And more importantly, it sounded like a call to battle.

The only issue was, the cross streets that had just crackled out from the cop radio were not ones she was familiar with. So she did what anyone in Liberty City would do: she hailed a cab. She repeated the cross streets she had heard, and the driver sped off. Fortunately for Kate, it was late morning, traffic was light, and like all Liberty City cabbies, this one had a lead foot.

In an illegally short amount of time, her cab screeched to a halt at the cross streets Kate had requested, and after Kate handed the driver a generous cash tip, he sped off to find another fare. After a brief look around, Kate deduced that the academy in question was the building that looked like a police academy, said it was one on the side, and had some commotion going on right in front of the entrance. Still appearing to be a normal civilian with a chic outfit, no wings, no manifested weapons, no fire, and definitely no Khobalian battle armor, Kate walked closer to parking lot separating her from the entrance. She figured there would usually be guards at the entrance to the lot, but it seemed they were very much occupied. She walked closer and quickly noticed some very familiar ripples in the ground, close to the entrance. It seemed her suspicions were, unfortunately, confirmed.

To protect herself from being pulled into the ground again (something she very much did not enjoy the first time), Kate chose this moment to sprout her huge wings and shoot up into the air with an audible [i]whoop[/i]. As she did so, she also manifested her Khodalian battle armor, which wrapped around her in seconds. A large, ornate, two-handed battle staff was soon to follow. Kate knew what the chaos woman was capable of, and she figured making a good first impression on the heroes wouldn't hurt either. She just hoped the heroes wouldn't think she was a villain like the news networks did after the park incident. Otherwise, things were about to get very messy.

For now, she had a task at hand. [color=gold]"Show yourself, chaos-bringer!"[/color] she bellowed.

[@BunniesOfDoom]