-Archive's Hideout-

Today had started pretty much normally for Archive. Morning tai chi, a light breakfast, meeting with a few loyal informants, and then right down to business. Compiling info for one client or another, spying on various organizations, monitoring police scanners and phone lines. The usual. It was almost boring.

But then the reports started coming in, one after another, from all of her sources. She couldn't believe it, but the truth was right there in front of her.

Someone had killed Starbird.

An explosion at an abandoned building in the older part of town had drawn the police, and the bodies of Starbird and an unknown woman had been discovered inside. Both shot dead. It was obviously professional work- she knew an amateur couldn't get lucky enough to take down a vetted hero. Who had done it, and why?

Well, the why was rather obvious. Someone wanted a major player out of the way. There were others, of course, but none with as much press as the cosmic ray shooter. It was a major shake up, and it was going to leave a nice vacuum of power on the 'noble' side of things. Repercussions were incoming, and she'd just have to watch how the pieces fell.

Today had turned out quite interesting after all.