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[b][u]One week later....[/u][/b]

The heroes had met at the apartment complex in Bayside that Judah and his uncle had inherited after his mother died. The elevator on the east side of the U shaped building had a secret basement floor under the parking garage on the lower level. After the door closed, Judah pressed a number into the floor buttons; Two, Eight, One, Four. The emergency light clicked on and the small group was on their way to the HQ. It opened to a small underground hallway that lead across the street to the secret HQ Lady Liberty had begun constructing underneath the lots she purchased the year before.  

"I know it's a lot asking everyone to just wear ballcaps, sunglasses, and hoodies, but I get that y'all are just keeping yourselves safe." Judah commented as he slipped his mask on and pulled his camo green hoodie down. "Me and my uncle are looking into building another entrance, maybe coming in from the bay..." 

"I don't mind not wearing any kind of disguise to make us look less suspicious. My eyes only glow green when I want them to." Painkiller commented lighting his eyes up in the darkened hallway.

The group finally came to another doorway. The same code was punched in as before, just a different type of terminal. The door slid open to reveal what Judah's uncle dubbed the "Freedom Fortress". It was clearly the HQ work-in-progress of Lady Liberty, who had memorabilia adorning the walls of the cave-like area as well as newspaper clippings. A large Statue of Liberty bust was carved into one of the walls with a head around the size of one of the heroes. There were American flags on each side of the giant computer monitors and station, a speedboat type of transportation vehicle that wasn't quite finished, as well as a duplicate of Lady Liberty's costume on a mannequin under glass. There was a handful of weapons confiscated from criminals such as the skull Helmet of the Unliving that once belonged to Doctor Death, the remains from a head of a Nazi robo-human, the water blaster of the Liquidator, as well as one of the winged jetpacks of the Silverwing terrorist group.  

"My Uncle Sam calls it the Freedom Fortress. I never realized how much my mom did for the city or the world until I saw some of these newspaper clippings on the walls. Interference... if you wanna take a look at some of the tech I don't know a lot about what I'm looking at. I figured out the password to unlock her computers but I don't know what to do with them once I get them going. I'm not the best with smart phones so this is all foreign land to me..." Judah explained walking by some of the flashier pieces in the HQ. There was a small lounge area, what looked like a personal gym off in a corner of the cave, and the door suddenly sliding open again for a late arrival. 

Was it Stampede, the Queen of Gold, or someone else?

Across town school was letting out for the day. Everything was sunshine and rainbows after an afternoon rain shower until the twisted brute that was once called Kid Cosmo (of the Amazings!) showed up out of nowhere causing chaos. Just outside of a government office building no less, the orange skinned four-armed behemoth started throwing cars and just generally being a monster to be feared. Everyone else might have feared the twisted alien hero, except for the hero that answered the call.