Chulance

Supernatural - Hell On The Horizon

Castiel

Castiel could only raise an eyebrow at Dean's first comment not being familiar with modern day human lingo or concepts such as the one he mentioned. "I'm sorry Dean but I believe we need to prioritize stopping Lucifer, we don't have any extra time to work on dealing with this "personal space". I don't have ample time on my hands to assist you with other minor threats that you as a hunter should be capable of handling on your own."

As usual, the divine soldier was oblivious to the fact that Dean wasn't referring to some sort of monster or supernatural mishap but a simple courtesy of putting adequate distance between himself & others. "As for the seals there is no divinely ordained map designed to specifically direct you or us towards the seals, however many of them have been written in numerous texts spiritual & otherwise, such as the book on that table that refers to the rising of the witness's. From what I here another group of hunters led by a descendent of the judges named Josiah attempted to prevent it, and while he was able to quell the irate spirits who perished by unnatural means the demons still managed to shatter the seal."

"Me & the other angels are engaged in a war of cosmic proportions the likes of which the earth hasn't seen since Lucifer's first rebellion when he initially fell. The demons are being led by an enemy you are already familiar with, Lilith the original demon. During the earliest days of humanity in order to spite our heavenly father, the devil took & twisted a female human soul beyond recognition, the result of which being the birth of Lilith. "

It was at this time that the angel turned his head to recognize Cason, another demon in the room as well as noticing Annabeth's demonic presence as well. A scowl came across his face at the sight of the beings he most despised as a soldier of Heaven. "Tell me Dean why is it that you are keeping demons & those tainted by their horrid evil as company? Surely as someone given a second chance by God himself you know better then to associate with abominations such as those? Or perhaps they managed to disguise themselves in a manner that even with your years of hunting experience you were left unaware of their presence? If that is the case it is a simple matter for me to purge their existence from this house-hold." The angel spoke and raised his hand accumulating bright divine energy in his right hand as he effortlessly began charging a blast of white light to smite both Cason & Annabeth. "Shut your eyes & step away from the demons, I can smite them both with a wave of my hand if you'd like." He spoke in an authoritative tone believing that both Cason & Annabeth where evil entities whom infiltrated Dean's group without their knowledge, getting ready to obliterate both of them unless Dean said otherwise.

Supernatural - Hell On The Horizon

Castiel

All of a sudden Castiel appeared somwhat uncomfortably close to the elder Winchester brother. It was if the trench coat wearing angel had no idea of the concept of personal space having teleported into Bobby's residence in-front of Dean with only a few inches of space in between the two.

"You don't know how prayer works? You seem to have no problem performing it correctly to summon me here. But prayer is a good sign, it is an indication of one's devout nature. Something a skeptical heretic like you so desperately needs, so I'm glad your picking up the behavior." Castiel spoke matter of factly to Dean happy that he was praying at all as it was a sign that the heaven & the angels hadn't made an error in lifting Dean out of the furnace.

"As for your friend Bobby, he is correct in that what's happening indeed is the breaking of the seals. When I first met you I told you that we broke you out of hell because God himself has work for you. This is the work I was referring to. There's over 600 seals, but the demons need only break 66 of them to open the door enclosed behind them." Castiel paused for a moment as if for dramatic effect, but really to let the words he was speaking sink in to Dean & the other hunters present. "We cannot allow that to happen, if the seals are broken, then Lucifer will be free once more & he will raise hell on earth literally. Why do you think that we angels are once again walking the earth again for the first time in 2000 years?" The heavenly trench-coat warrior said directing his speech to Dean without even turning to look at the others or pay them much attention.

The Energy Storm

Dean Rivers

Time: Afternoon
Location: Downtown San Francisco to River Intel PI Office
Interaction:

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Dean was more than worried, he’d tried to no avail to get in contact with Paige. He had one final message from her, the contents of which were disturbing. She explained her mission was to bring down Floyd Banker & the Salzaras Cartel at all costs. She incriminated herself as the sole perpetrator of the gas station bombing that reportedly only Rita Salzaras had survived unscathed. Three others had survived with second & third degree burns, and 14 people had died.

Regardless of their history as officers in arms fighting the good fight, that was where even Dean drew the line. He was willing to play rough, good cop, bad cop but when innocent lives were lost he called it quits. Of course Paige had divulged more information then that including her own power & why she was best to take down Floyd, as well as the fact that she was willing to serve as many life sentences’s as needed to bring down those responsible for taking out the ones who ruined her sister’s life.

The crazy thing was despite all the anger fuming through him, he appreciated the fact that Paige had asked for him to be the one to bring her in. At first he was conflicted, not that he wouldn’t take her in after she caused innocents to die. Rather he didn’t want to be the one to do it, but his morality was too strong not to honor that request of hers. But now that he was unable to find her he wondered if she’d gotten cold feet, had the reality of her fate set in. After all a regenerating woman who might not even age serving consecutive life sentences. With her power she’d be sure to serve every day, if not in a cell then as a victim of a research facility who would have no qualms using her body for whatever purpose after her careless taking of lives.

But now his attempts to contact her resulted in nothing but radio silence. He almost took the evidence to the station but stopped, Paige was many things but a liar wasn’t one. She’d went this far to take down Floyd sure, but if she didn’t want to be taken in why would she even give him this information? It wouldn’t be sensible to bring him in the light about her recent crimes only to vanish right after. No something else was going on, that meant for whatever reason Paige wasn’t around anymore. Something’s not right about this at all

Dean had taken an unmarked car & drove past Floyd’s residence a few times two Horus ago, but he hadn’t seen any activity. He’d even had a makeshift setup to view the premise with binoculars and didn’t see any activity illegal, regular or otherwise. It was far too quite for his taste, Paige had even shared a location with him. The locations’s last reported place was Floyd’s residence, then it was offline. Paige wanted to take down Floyd a all cost, then wanted him to swoop in and bring her in afterwards. “Damn it Paige what the fuck did you get yourself into! You damned yourself, and didn’t even get the damn target!”

Dean yelled out as he slammed his fist against the dashboard of his cruiser. He took out all the paperwork & files he had on Floyd Banker. Even more surprising was finding out from Lisa, that she’d used to date that guy back when she lived in Atlanta. According to her he was a bum who sat around getting high & selling weed even though she supported all his needs. The relationship eventually came to a screeching halt once she came to her senses, but to her memory he was never a big time player. Yet it appeared he was a multi business owner living it up in California a few years later, and it was’t as if he’d gotten a college degree or a lucky break in the entertainment industry or anything similar.

Not to mention the last location pinged from Paige’s phone which she’d shared with Dean without him even knowing was his residence. “Banker you bastard.” Dean mutters to himself as he looked over the files of Floyd he had, and the ones Paige left for him. Apparently the FBI had taken an interest in his case & connection to the Salzaras Cartel before their investigation was shut down. It wasn’t often the FBI had a case swept under the rug from them, unless something major was going on.

He couldn’t fathom what type of major ongoings could be connected to Floyd, at the very most the intel he gathered made it seem like he was a dealer who’d worked his way up into the big leagues. Big enough to afford a far more affluent lifestyle then his credentials on paper made it seem possible, although owning two companies could account for that. Still one of the companies was a popular venue Taste of Paradise which was on the verge of being shut down because of another investigation by federal agents into potential narcotics trafficking taking place at the location. But alas just like the prior case, it seemed after Floyd purchased it all investigations into TAP had been halted.

His investigation had come to a sudden screeching halt. With no other way to move proceed he decided to visit & involve the one person he least wanted to see. But he had to swallow his pride, because he felt like everything he’d been peering Into all had to do with this Banker kid & the cases shut down around him. He decided to take an unmarked cruiser, one of the benefits of being a veteran narcotics detective.

He pulled into the driveway of Rivers Intel parking lot, a private investigation firm started by his cousin Devin Rivers. Like Paige he was an ex-cop, although he wasn’t let go because of outright police brutality, but rather his tendency to break as many laws as the very criminals he was going after to catch them. Unlike Paige the police agency hadn’t willingly let him go, rather complaints from well connected & lawyered up criminals in tandem with an internal investigation had been the causation for his elimination from the agents of justice.

To this day Devin was bitter about that, and more so that Dean didn’t stand up for him. But he had a life long career & mission on the line. His cousin’s inability to play by the rules meant he couldn’t risk his bacon to help him. Not after several warnings, and even breaking a rule or two himself to help him. “I hoped it would never have to come to this.” Dean let out a sigh as he gathered his bearings and made his way into the reception area of River Intel.

The secretary waved at him and offered some candies in a bowl up-front as well as bottled water. However that friendly demeanor halted and he was met with a scowl as she noticed who he was. “OH it’s you Uncle.”

“Yeah it’s me.” Dean said exhausted his niece was no friend of his, she knew well about what went down between him and his father. More than that she took his side wholly as did Devin’s wife which was expected. What made matters worst was there were a few officers who’d stuck out their necks for Devin during the final stage of the trial, and he wasn’t one of them. Of course the one that had been the closest to him had lost their jobs, but he’d heard that they had a much better paying salary working for Devin.

His rag tag PI firm wasn’t doing that well at first last year, but in the past three months they were making well over six figures. It dawned on him from time to time that maybe Devin was using his police connections & history to dip Into the dark side. Maybe he was embittered & frustrated that his fight for justice had landed him with a struggling business. But he quickly eliminated those thoughts from his head, and after a conversation in passing with his sister in law two months ago he’d deduced how Devin had become as succesful as he had.

It wasn’t Long before his niece told him to go outside, and since forty minutes had passed Dean relented and left. “I dunno why the fuck I came here, emergency or no emergency, I guess he’s still mad.” Dean muttered to himself as he marched back to the cruiser defeated only to hear the sound of folders hitting the back bumper of his car. Dean spun around only to see his cousin meeting him with a scowl.

“What is it Dean? You know where we stand, I honestly wasn’t about to come out. But with everything going on, and because you know my little secret, and haven’t told, plus you said it’s a emergency, and most importantly you said it’s about Paige, who unlike you actually stood up for me when everything went down I’m out here, but I’m letting you know right now if this is to help you and your damn career then just get in the car and pull off, so what is it what’s wrong with Paige?”

“What’s wrong with her…a better way to say it, is it what WAS wrong with her.” Dean said as his voice trailed off, and instantly the mood changed as Devin seemed to quickly understand what his cousin was implying with his tone & manner of speech, as well as a defeated look in his eyes that Dean didn’t manifest or showcase often.

“No…not her…I mean I heard about her and what happened, shame the force put some fucking dealer above her because of a little foul play with cameras, if you can even call it that. You know how I feel about these damn procedures, criminals with big enough pocketbooks can finagle their way through the rules, and leave us looking like the liberty trampling monsters when there the real demons, your not telling me that Paige got knocked off going solo, that’s not possible, trust me there’s things about her I know that you don’t, so if your saying you think she’s dead, I’m here to tell you that’s a damn lie at worst, or at best you just don’t know what your talking about.” Devin reported confidently, getting some more spunk in his voice as he continued.

“Oh cause she can regenerate right? Well what do you think happens if someone chops her head off, or tosses her in a vat of acid?” Dean replied with a bit of anger in his voice startling Devin who stumbled back.

“W..wait..someone did that? You..”

“No..well I don’t know, but I’m here to tell you she’s gone man, and we were working on the same shit. Something big it had to do with the brat she got fired for, plus the Salzaras, superhuman drug traffickers, and potentially the worst case of human trafficking in the bay ever and I need your help, if you won’t do it for me do it for Paige, and if you think I’m lying touch this.”

Dean reached in his pocket and handed Devin a phone. He raised an eyebrow and accepted the phone. Focusing he used his power causing his mind to flood with vision and he almost dropped the phone as he stumbled backwards. “No….she wouldn’t…she couldn’t…this…this..doesn’t make any sense!!”

“Yeah I thought the same thing, but the more I’m starting to connect the dots, the more I think it might have. WE both know her, and we both know the lengths she’s willing to go And more importantly the ones she’s not willing to take, meaning if she took them of sound mind, then she was facing something not just bad, but pure fucking evil.”

“Holy shit, I never thought I’d say this about you and by god I mean that but your right Fuck, come inside I’ve got some crown and ice in the fridge, we’re going to need to pour a drink or two about this, and bring the files, the burner phone, bring everything, and I thought what the mayor said was the worst of it.” Devin muttered to himself clearly shook by the sight of what he’d seen by touching the burner phone Dean presented to him.

Dean nodded and gathered his materials into a duffel bag before slinging it over his shoulder. Following Devin’s lead into the office, ignoring glares from his niece they went to the back-room where there were three TV’s all on different channels showing different news stations. As Dean opened up the bag and started laying the various materials he had across the desk from his cases, Devin went to the fridge to retrieve the bottle of crown, and two glasses filled with ice.

Dean nearly dropped some folders as his jaw widened seeing the display on the television screen. “You’ve got to be me kidding me, have you seen this shit?!”

“Quiet down man damn, ain’t nobody in this office that’s going take kindly to the likes of you being here, and you talking about the mayor right, don’t tell me your just now finding out, damn it, if you are then that means this shit with Paige IS really real, realer then I care to think or admit, but I’m about to have to see it.” Devin said as he poured the crown In the glasses, pouring a bit more in both cups due to Dean’s reply to Mayor Chen’s actions on the television in light of everything going on.

The Energy Storm

Hector Salzaras

Time: Afternoon
Location: The Salzaras Estate, Mexico
Interaction:

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“This is quite the unfortunate turn of events is it not.” Hector Salzaras said as he wiped his hands off with a napkin. He’d just enjoyed a wonderful steak & salmon dinner with an abundance of delicious sides. He sat at the dinner table of his illustrious palace for lack of better word that he’d built in Mexico.

As the leader of the Salzaras Cartel, he was a very busy & powerful man. Whilst he had no aspirations for political power, he did have many such people in his circle. There was a history of people like him, notorious wealthy cartel leaders moving in the same circles as the pushers & movers of this country’s government. But he’d taken things a step further with the inclusion of altered humans within his ranks. While the United States shunned them down as genetic mishaps, mutants, monsters & some devout religious fundamentalists demons. He’d seen them as a viable financial asset, one that was paying off hundred-fold.

A black portal opened up and out stepped a man that was of hispanic & Russian descent. Nikolai Rasputin. He was a notorious weapons dealer prior to the energy storm, but after getting his powers he’d struck up an alliance with the leader of the Salzaras Cartel. He’d expanded his operations from being an international gun smuggler to also trafficking narcotics & even got into human trafficking thanks to some contacts in India & The Middle East courtesy of Hector Salzaras. It would be an understatement to say that his powers had changed his life dramatically, and raised his finances to that of a high level millionaire.

Niko hadn’t come through the portal alone, bringing along a few brief-cases and three armed men. He took a bow towards Hector as did the men, but Hector waved his hand & motioned for them to rise up. He was on the phone, and all who worked for him in the upper management of the Salzaras Cartel knew better then to interrupt him on the phone. By the sounds of it, he was talking to his lover Cynthia Ortiz. After a short while later Hector hung up the phone and let out a sigh. He then widened his arms and allowed a warm smile to gather on his face. “Please eat, there is no need to fear me, as long as product & money is flowing, and all agreements are as planned you will have no anonymity from me.”

“Understood Mr. Salzaras.” Niko replied as he took a seat, as did the others. While Hector had told him as well as his second In command Eduardo & others on the chairman board that they could call him Hector, only Eduardo & Rita dared. Anyone that he gave permission to call him Hector he surely meant it, but his calm demeanor was as well as down as his sadistic & violent strike towards subordinates who angered him. Sometimes even the slightest infraction could have them ordered to be eaten by shark’s, piranha’s, alligators or whatever particular torture interested him at the time.

“Still insist on showing the upmost respect, even though among us two you have the clear advantage in raw power Mr. Rasputin. I like that about you.” Hector said as he took a knife and cut a piece of his lemon square before taking a bite. He was very full from his meal, but he always welcomed desert.

“Well you are the one behind changing my life, the storm’s plague may have given me the ability, but you provided the guidance & direction to elevate myself to a new standing. Aside from that power isn’t as simple as me opening portals, people shooting lasers, or summoning violent gusts of wind or fire. Power is money, power is an aura about oneself, the ability to command others. There are different forms of power, and power like you and the leaders of America and other nations have far surpasses even the power I wield.” Niko responded as some chefs brought food to the table for him & his men.

“Very perceptive, and while you may be right, I still can’t help but imagine and at times even envy the type of raw power individuals such as yourself, my lover & sister have. Although I hear rumors that this Boost may be the answer to my desire of having my own super powers. Anyway I’ve become privy o some very disheartening news lately, I was on the phone with Miss Ortiz. With her informative lips she’s uncovered that the source of the missing drugs was none other then my dear sister Rita, it seems she hadn’t learned from the fate of my former foolish younger brother and father.” Hector spoke calmly at the passing of family members whom he’d ordered killed when they crossed him.

The tension in the room was clear, and Niko’s explanation seemed to be showcased right here at the dinner table. Of the five the room, eight including the severs Hector was the one who held & wielded the most true power in the room. As stated by the portal generating trafficker, Salzaras had real power, and not the kind that could lift boxes with your mind or make them melt. The kind of power many men & even women had sought over the centuries to subjugate their fellow humans to their will.

“Alas she knew that unlike with father & my annoying brother I do have a soft spot for her, still that simply means I won’t have her tossed in a vat of acid or subjected to multiple strains of venomous snakes at once. A punishment is still in order, at the very least she must make amends for her transgressions, and even the reluctance I have to ending her tenure on this earth has it’s limits. As with food, I believe every person has an expiration date, but some people can continue to push that date farther and farther away such as yourself Niko & the rest of you here.” Hector said with a charismatic smile that did not fit the grim topic he was discussing in-front of them.

“So Rita was the snake after all, forgive my language. Also not to interrupt, but Oakland has turned into a bloody street war, thugs walking around bullet proof who can bend steel bars under the influence of this Boost. Even with my powers I’ve yet to find any leads, and from the women I’ve taken recently for my overseas clients none have had any leads either. I understand that Boost may prove to be a thorn in your side, a drug like that has potential to appeal to a far wider & weather market then the likes of our usuals including cocaine & heroin correct?” Niko asked being careful with his words, for being a powerful man & asset to the Salzaras Cartel he still knew to watch his words & be careful of how he spoke to the ruthless cartel leader.

“Much far wider & reacher, the Us Government has made sure to keep news of Boost out of the media & has all but abandoned efforts to help Oakland in public, despite the fact that gangs aided by altered & boost were tearing up the city. “ Hector responded while pausing to carefully think of the implications of such a move. My intuition tells me it’s because the US Government must want to get their hands on this substance, which means whomever is in charge of the manufacture & distribution of boost will be quite the wealthy individual. According to Cynthia’s intel the drugs Rita diverted were to a player named Floyd Banker, whose managed to get the feds attention, but the case was forcibly taken from them

“It makes since with what it is, I myself haven’t tried the substance nor found it for that matter, but I do no Oakland’s turning into more of a war zone then usual, the effects of which have far since stretched from the ghetto’s & other urban areas, which typically would have long since led to a reaction from law enforcement, especially with the military deployed to every state.” Niko spoke aloud, he too was speculating on the purpose & mystery behind the government’s seeming refusal or concern about Oakland.

“I believe there is a race going on, the winner will be the first one to claim control of Boost for themselves, these thugs with a few altered have managed to seize Oakland, next door to San Francisco where a Godzilla sized woman just went on a rampage and murdered thousands, f they have not yet launched a swift military strike to demolish these wannabe gangsters trying to enact a supervillain like takeover, then it’s because the US wants access to the very same power as these thugs & no doubt there working tireless to acquire this fountain of power. Thus we, the Salzaras must acquire it first. Niko proceed with the plans to retrieve the tunnel-maker from Chicago, that should stir up enough controversy to forcibly divide the United States Attention, afterwards divert all your current attention to Oakland, in order to compete with the gods, we too must acquire the power of Olympus for ourselves.” Hector said with a smile as he took another bite of his lemon bar. “As for my dear sister, her time is near, but if you would I’d like you to reach out to this Floyd Banker, I believe he too may prove to be a valuable piece of this puzzle we’re trying to put together.”

The Energy Storm

Karlina’s Package

Karlina had received a mysterious package. Something she was not expecting, but all the lest still troubling. Within the package was a message as well as some information.She enjoyed her work and was very thorough, having a high ranking among liberty’s altered agents. Still she wouldn’t say she’d made very many personal relationships on the job. There were a few exceptions to the matter, one of those was another agent who shared similar powers to her as well as a unique cultural background that didn’t originate in America.

Jaden Hamazuro, a man with parents of both Japanese & Ghanian origin. His father originated from a well to do family in Ghana and his mother originated from a family of high standing in Japan. They had some conflicts among the elders of both family regarding the union, but it had turned out to be one that was resolved in a manner that was amicable to both sides from the lovers to the heads of the family themselves.

Jaden leaned against a wall while sparking up a ruby clove. After ensuring it was well and lit he took a few puffs to ease his mind. The stress of Liberty & being transferred to California was getting to him, previously he’d been stationed in Liberty office’s in Miami Florida, and Atlanta Georgia. Well at least it’s better then being in Atlanta, and dealing with all those CDC related missions & the plague. There’s not much that I can do against a virus or anything, but people with powers is my forte. Although out here I’m not wholly special thanks to the psychiatrist chick, damn it Jaden grumbled to himself internally, in his thoughts reflecting on his position at this office in comparison with Agent Akinosho.

“So you think you have time for a smoke break? Honestly Hamazuro, you should be more focused. I’ve already informed you of Director Hanes inclinations towards people of color, here in California we must do our absolute very best. We are the examples of altered who can both co-operate with the government, and provide upmost aid to their forces in dealing with those of our kind who abuse their powers for violence or their own selfish needs irregardless of the effects on the United States.” Karlina declared reprimanding her lackluster partner & the altered she’d taken in her as protege.

Patricia had assigned Karlina to be his direct superior, and wanted to train him to take on some of her responsibilities. People with their type of ability were few & far in-between, including Micah there were currently only three of them with their abilities working with Liberty’s rank. Still they suspected to be a few more scattered throughout the country although their exact allegiance & location were not 100% confirmed. Besides while similar their powers had some stark diffrences & massive contrasts. Although government superiors found Jaden’s power to be deliciously resourceful, he himself was less then satisfied with his powers.

That is at least until Karlina started showing him the ropes, and informing him of some alternate possibilities of how he could utilize his gifts. Ways that actually made it feel as though it was a power itself, and not just one to cast aside others. While he didn’t want to vocalize it he was appreciative of that information & her training methods however brutal and unpractical he’d found them at first & even now still had some disdain towards. All of that & more was probably why Karlina had chosen to bring him in and inform him of the contents of the message she received.

Liberty had a mole within it’s ranks, and not one from Reaper’s resistance, the serial killer Lori or even factions driven by hatred or conspiracy to the Forrester Administration. “So this Agent Donnovan, she’s a Russian spy huh, and you think Marcus is behind this intel spill? Why you, and why me huh? He delivers the scoop to you, and then you bring it to me? I mean sure I’m your student, but even with the parlor tricks you helped me acquire I’m no powerhouse.So what does this mean, that the rumors are true? The Russians really are at the center of everything, honestly I was more certain it was a plot of Chinese or Iranians.”

“Well of the few people I’ve connected with at Liberty, Marcus is one of those people. When he suddenly fled the organization I didn’t understand, even less so when reports came in that he was still carrying out his assignments Liberty gave him, taking out researched and previously monitored dangerous criminals. You damned idiot, your going after the head, but the problem is Forrester is like a hydra I suspect, if you cut off one head another one will grow Karlina thought to herself as she continued the conversation with Jaden on her findings & the contents of the package she’d received early this morning.

Oakland California - Jaden's Altered Drug Raid

This investigation into Boost, had taken Jaden into his most recent field mission. Karlina was at the office looking over Jonah’s partner’s condition after her memory erasure. Not just her but a few others who’d needed memory scrapes.

His solo investigation into a potential boost distribution factory had led him into quite the entanglement. Lionel & Cain were fighting for control of Oakland, Lionel’s boost enhanced murder of the chief & officers loyal to them had sent a pretty clear message of what to expect if they intervened with his agenda.

“So your trying to fuck with Cain’s shit huh? You must not be a very smart negro to do that huh’, lucky for you I’ve got the remedy for that situation” Cain’s goon quipped as he pulled out a gun and so did some of the other goons in the warehouse they al currently occupied.

“Oh come on Tory, so you can shoot sparks now and you think you’re special? Well maybe up there in the head.” Jaden retired mockingly spinning his index finger around his ear as if to indicate that Tory had a few loose screws.

“Oh fuck you, sooner or later I’m going be second in command of this whole operation, this shit going go farther then Oakland, we’ve got the juice literally. And when I’m on this shit I’m unstoppable, come on y’all let’s fuck him up!!!” Tory yelled out and fired a massive blast of lightning towards Jaden, while three of the other guns stayed back but were ready to pounce at a moment’s notice.

Jaden ducked and rolled but it wasn’t enough to get out of the lightning’s path. “Null!” Jaden yelled raising his right arm up unleashing his power. As the lightning connected with his hand it dissipate causing Tory to cuss, and launch another blast. Jaden commanded his power and did the same thing dissipating the lightning blast by “grabbing” it with his right arm.

The three goons decided their boss’s plan of attack wasn’t effective and charged in. Jaden flipped over one of the goons kicking another, then turned grabbing one of the other ones using his power while kneeing him in the gut knocking the goon unconscious. The other two charged one with a knife and the other with a bat, Jaden maneuvered between them causing the bat swinging thug to hit his knife wielding friend. Jaden used his powers again punching one of the goons knocking him unconscious and kicking the last one infusing his power with the kick to knock the last goon unconscious. He then whipped out his gun opening fire at Tory who fired a blast of electricity which countered the shots.

I know he wasn’t rocking them to sleep with just punches and kicks, looks like he can somehow make people go unconscious by physical contact either that or this man got super strength, nah I’ve seen dudes on just boost punch people and they shatter bones. He got sum strange going on cuz he literally smacking my electric blasts out of existence Tory was in deep thought trying to analyze both Jaden’s fighting style & the exact nature of his powers. It didn’t seem to fit into the broad spectrum of name brand powers that he was familiar with as a causal citizen who’s only exposure to powers outside of the new wave of altered humans, was tv shows & movies from the marvel cinematic universe.

“Hello earth to Tory, are you ready to get your ass beat or what.” Jaden replied causing Tory to launch himself forward propelling himself with electricity and surrounding his body with electric armor.

As he charged forward Jaden rolled out the way as Tory’s kick sent sparks through the ground. He formed an electric spear and flung it at Jaden who kicked the spear channeling his power through his foot to dissipate the attack. As Tory summoned large amounts of electricity Jaden flung himself forward flying towards Tory and tackling him. As he was tackled his electric armor dissipated, and Jaden quickly pummeled Tory with a series of powerful punches and kicks.

He hopped off the beaten and battered altered thug who coughed up blood. “Well at least you came calling when I told you too pussy.”

“Mother-fucker…” Tory screamed this didn’t make sense, not only did the drug enhance his powers, he had the same physical boosts as everyone but it was like Jaden beat him to a pulp like he was at his regular strength level. “I’mma fuck you up.” Tory rose up summoning an electric whip and swinging it at Jaden.

Jaden spun around karate chopping the whip dissipating I then flew forward again performing a double kick to Tory’s chest knocking him into a metal container and rendering him unconscious. Jaden shook his head and picked up his phone to contact a Liberty transport team to pick up Tory & the downed goons.

“Yeah no, it was a dead lead, I mean there’s drugs at this warehouse, but no boost. Sizable amount of dope, and coke tho, I say we pull in the regular cops let em take the bust, we should nab Tyler, & by the time his assistants are up again they’ll be regular ass punks withdrawing from boost.” Jaden said speaking to one of his liberty superiors on the phone providing intel of the mission & it’s conclusion.

The Energy Storm

Jonah Hanes

Time: Afternoon
Location: Downtown Oakland,
Interaction:

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Two Days Ago

“Let’s stir things up a bit shall we.” Retorted Cain as he pulled a gun, they were in the midst of another heist in Oakland. Thanks to boost assisting his men, even the ones without powers felt it flowing through their body. He’d made a connection with Hines & was the primary buyer of boost. Of course somehow Lionel’s thugs as well as some other single third party individuals had managed to acquire boost as well.

Which meant Hines liked to sleep around with his new product, that was worrying to Cain. But both distribution & usage had important meanings too I’m, personally he didn’t want anyone else to have access to boost. He tried tipping Lester giving him as much extra money as possible to divert the sale of boost to others, but that didn’t seem to be enough. It seemed Lionel had bigger pockets then him, even prior to the chemical super drug enhanced street war was rampaging through the streets of Oakland.

“Put everything in the fucking bag if you don’t wan to die.” Cain commended as he lifted up a teller and flung him across the room with ease. The man yelp as he slammed into a wall with a thud, the others working quickly filling up his men’s bags of cash. The bodies of dead copies & a few guardsmen were strewn about outside, they’d been no match. His right hand man Komak had been a help too, with a power that was essentially the same as Gambit’s from the X Men.

After a short while, they were pulling off in their trio of expensive cars with no plates they’d stolen and utilized for the heist. Whilst Lionel’s strategy was to exact income from store owners in exchange for protection from Cain & other elements superpowers, criminal & otherwise, he preferred more simplistic measures of cash acquisition. Direct robberies, heists, & shaking people down for the goods.

Meanwhile at the police station Lionel had shown up to see the chief on an emergent matter. He was wearing black jeans, a black sleeveless tee and a green face mask. The chief seemed irate and didn’t want a meeting with this man. “What is it that you need, if you can’t tell the whole damn city is falling apart because of these super freaks.”

“Well that’s just it, perhaps calling them super freaks isn’ the best thing.” Lionel spoke calmly, clearly this man had no clue who he was or he wouldn’t risk using such coarse language. Or maybe he would, there were always skeptics. These days there were people who didn’t believe in the plague or even the altered they spawned unless they’d seen it with their own eyes. In the age of the internet, youtube & digital media sometimes Lionel could hardly blame them.

“I’ll call them bastards whatever I want, I was told you had some urgent news to deliver regarding how the fuck all these lowlives have been spawning powers, the same type too, as if it’s not the damn plague, which even I’m starting to believe.”

“Listen…” Lionel’s voice trailed off, as his entire skin was encased in a metallic coating. The chief backed up pulling out a gun yelling to stay back as Lionel lunged forward bursting. His hand through the chief’s neck then smiling, throwing the body through the window of the office as other cops emerged shooting at Lionel. The bullets mashed against his skin but did little to harm him, instead he pulled out his own Tommy gun and opened fire on some of the officers.

“LISTEN!, If you want to live then you work for me! METAL HEAD, Cain’s words have no meaning to you, understand! I have no intention of allowing these needless violent robberies & heists to continue, I prefer to operate like an actual business. But stand in my way and you’ll end up just like the chief or those officers who I’ve just shot, the ones who are still alive you should probably seek medical attention, since unlike San Francisco you all still have a hospital, even if it was filled to the brim with victims of the plague.”

In The Present Day

Meanwhile at the coffee shop Jonah was in his car sipping his beverage while reading the reports of what had happened. Oakland had certainly seen better days, as had San Francisco & even LA for that matter. Of the three LA was the best off, San Francisco was recovering from the damage, but Oakland was engulfed in a gang war of proportions they’d never encouneted before.

“I have to find the source of this, a means to an end to put this madness to a halt.” Jonah decided, shaking his head. Tommy’s death hung on his mind, he’d thought he was a white altered. But had now learned he was just a man taking boost & using it to fight against the distribution of the drugs & other criminals who consumed it as well as altered & regular criminals. He was a cocaine dealer, who used his excess funds to fund his boost habit & vigilante career.

A Batman like figure who diverted his income from the sale of cocaine, fighting sin with sin. It wasn’t a method Jonah could agree on, but then again what was Liberty? He’d had several fights with Amelia the past few nights, after she claimed to have been saved by an altered. His wife, a former CIA agent taking the side of domestic terrorists simply because she believed they wanted, no “Deserved” rights.

“They don’t deserve a damn thing, except a bullet to the brain for being the monsters they are.” Jonah muttered to himself before taking another sip of caffeine.

Right as he did he heard the screams and cries of a woman begging for help. Jonah quickly placed his coffee in the cup holder and started up the jeep. Maybe I can’t find Lester Hines or whose behind Boost right now but I can save that woman Jonah reversed out the parking lot and swerved into the street nearly colliding with two Honda’s as he sped across the street towards the ally where the cries of help emanated from.

“HELP!!! HELP!!! PLEASE DONT TAKE ME!!!” The woman cried out, her pleas for mercy and to be spared growing louder even over the revving of the engine as Jonah plummeted through an alleyway not meant for vehicle passage to encounter the woman. He slightly tapped on the brakes as he zoomed forward not wanting to accidentally incidentally thrash the very woman he sought to potentially save and pull from harm’s way.

Right as he turned the corner he saw a college aged caucasian woman running for her life, and suddenly a black portal opened up sucking her in. He spotted a hispanic man standing there laughing and before Jonah could emerge from his car with a gun drawn the black portal swallowed up the man as well.

Jonah emerged from the car with a look of shock, confusion & regret. The agent plopped to his knees, as a few tears rolled down his eyes.

Some sinister man, with an even sinister power as the culprit had swallowed up both himself & a girl trying to flee from him. Worst despite this being an ethnic filled part of the city, the woman was one of them, the important ones. “I couldn’t save her, what the hell is going on lately, what the hell can I do?! Amy’s in the hospital, Martinez is on the loose, my own agents aided her power acquisition unknowingly which probably led to het having an easier time thrashing San Francisco, and now there’s an outbreak of a new drug granting any and everyone synthetic powers. The Military wants to get their hands on It to more effectively combat rogue altered & crush their enemies overseas, more & more of the populace Is starting to truly believe Russia, China, North Korea and/or Iran is behind the Energy Storm, and now Forrester found out about my planned deception to keep the nature of Marinez’s powers quiet. The only good part about any of this madness is it might actually help Governor Stark pass the separation act in this state, which should have a domino effect on the rest of the country or at least the states most hard hit by horrific altered induced crimes like Chicago where that high school went under a sinkhole, but that’s not enough.”

Jonah brushed the remnant of tears out his face and got back in the jeep. He hadn’t come out here to save that girl, or anyone really. Although that was the goal, Oakland wasn’t a primary area of concern. The National Guard had decided to forgo sending any more aid to the city, upon learning of boost being used on both sides of the gang war intertwined with altered criminals. It was seen as a losing battle, for an area that was not of the most concern.

Upon receiving that news yesterday, him & Patricia read between the lines. The Forrester Administration decided that because this area was filled with so many hispanics, blacks & otherwise, that they should let it go. Let the leading criminal powers duke it out, like some real life Godzilla vs Mother situation & rush in with reinforcements after they took each other. Still his people were in the city, working at the police station, the hospital, fire-department, cinemas, corner stores, grocery stores, pharmacies, and even some overly concerned foolish teachers.

“I have to save us all, there can’t be any more Tommy’s. These monsters have a knack for bringing in and involving the good people with their heinous actions. For the administration to simply abandon Oakland in its entirety is mind bobbling, whilst so much effort is being put into San Francisco’s reconstruction." Of course they had a giant woman with laser eyes tearing through the city & that kind hearted paraplegic mayor diverting resources. Not to mention that woman with the Astral company Nyssa something had set up a supply camp to help.

“So you're out here working refusing not to give up on thes shit-hole.” Lana Kruek, another liberty agent spoke. She was half of him, and half other, having a white father & asian mother.

“Yes I am.” Jonah spoke with a tone of defeat as he looked up at Lana dressed in combat gear with guns holstered on her hips.

“That’s just like you Director Hanes, you portray yourself as a hardass, and your more than a little racist, but you still want to try to do the right thing. It’s an admirable quality about you, perhaps the only one you have.” Lana retorted with a smirk as she metaphorically & literally looked down on the liberty director.

“Did you come to rub my incompetence and failure in, to simply spark conversation or do you have any actual leads? If I remember correctly I stationed you in LA to follow up leads on the slaughter of some group of dead altered, whose death MO’s figure into the pattens of other victims of Martinez’s ability”

“I did complete that task, a while ago, now I’m working on this one, aside from you there’s no oe else trying to do anything about it and for your information Hanes, I DO have a lead o boost manufacturing.” Lana replied back cooly.

The Energy Storm

Adora Zayas

Time: Afternoon
Location: California, Within Adora’s subconscious
Interaction:

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Rise of "Thirst" Birth of Amara

An hour later Adora was sprawled out on her couch with a vanilla & strawberry milkshake, as well as some cookies and a pre rolled joint. As she indulged on sweets & cookies, she chopped up a line of some strong heroin on the table. Leaning forward she snorted down the three lines of white relaxation and leaned back as the powerful opiates surged through her body. The numbing feeling from this devious powerful narcotic were apparent nearly immediately. She’d pre emotively consumed a few pain killers ten minutes prior to sniffing the powder, allowing a powerful combination of sedation in conjunction with the marijuana she’d smoked.

“Yesss I…need…this.” Adora’s voice slowed. & slurred as the drugs took effect. After claiming the power from that woman Paige, who she’d had the great pleasure & luck of hearing it seemed her previous struggles of sporadic pain from the past few days had subsided. When she’d gotten back she’d grabbed a knife from her kitchen & playfully cut through her arm. Feeling waves of satisfaction as she drew blood then witnessed her wounds heal, her skin reconnecting and blood being reabsorbed into her body as she was fully restored to her normal state.

The regenerative qualities of this power seemed to combat the rising pain she’d been deriving from her ability & what she deduced were consequences for the constant altering of her genetic make-up.

Oh how cute you thought we were through, no thanks for providing the perfect and quite relaxing entry if you will

The same distorted voice echoed through Adora’s mind in her highly inebriated state. She began to rise up only to feel similar effects to sleep paralysis. She struggled to open her eyes only seeing black, and screamed out. Yet no noise was made from her yells and she saw lashes of blinding light. Looking around she appeared in an empty cavern and stumbled back startled at her new location.

“Where the hell am…I” Adora pondered stepping forward and recoiled at the feeling of the rock terrain on her bare soles. It seemed being transported to this new location had left her Gucci flip flops at her previous one. “Awh just great, now I’m gonna get my feet dirty on this ground, and I just got my toes done.”

Oh don’t worry your toes are still doing, just rest honey, it’s time for me to take the wheels. Eventually we’ll learn to share the ropes but for now it’s time for me to take action, because you are ignoring our cravings. Ignoring our cries, either that or you are ignorant into the true beast that you absorbed & the nourishment that’s now required to satiate & satisfy the monster, this dragon is one you must chase seriously, constantly & brutally if I might add, allow me to show you how to maintain cerenium of this sort

In the real world Adora stood up still very high, but her eyes were pitch black. Her veins were similarly blacked out and very visible especially on her face & neck. The woman smiled and went over to her dresser opening a drawer and retrieving black nail polish. She quickly painted her nails black, then slipped her feet out of her sandals to apply the polish to her toils as well. “How fitting, ah some of the joys of the modern times I’m in, I think hmmm Adora, so that makes me…ooooh Amara, that sounds good, that sounds great, in-fact quite excellent.”

Amara formed a sinister grin, her voice somewhat distorted similar to the echoes of the voice Adora had been hearing in the recess of her mind. She’d switched places with Adora who was now wondering through the vastness of her conscience that was now inhabited by the memories, experiences & traits of her various victims. Swirling together to create the black eyed monster that now stood before her mirror above her dresser.

“The Collective as a team is suitable, but I require more then team-mates. A being of my stature requires something fitting, in accoradance to my state & current stature. Hmmm what might that be.” Amara pondered before hearing the cries and pleas of someone. “Interesting, it sounds as though I’m hearing the begs & cries of someone suffering. Wait a minute that’s right” A light bulb metaphorically appeared above her head, as she tapped into her enhanced hearing. Honing into the cries of mercy she turned her head to the corner of her room where her smoking tray was, on top of which sat a small brown box with holes poked into the top.

“Come to me.” The woman waved her hand and used her telekinetic power to cause the box & the tray underneath it to zoom over to her. It slowed to a halt as she reached out to grab the two, both of which she set on a kitchen counter-infront of her. “What have we hear.” Amara poised as she used her heat vision to melt the top off the box, causing the melted remains to drip into the box, and with her heightened hearing she heard painful yells of agony from someone.

Peering into the now open box she witnessed a scene which brought her pure delight. Within the box where five miniaturized individuals, one of which was now covered in the melting burning material of the top of the box. The other four had managed to avoid being caused underneath the melting plastic, and could only watch in horror as the fifth one trapped had only his hand shoot out from beneath the piles of burning plastic. Watching in horror as his hand struggled with sporadic movements before coming to a halt indicating that he’d ran out of breath & died from a combination of asphyxiation and brutally painful third degree burns from being covered in mounds of burning melted plastic.

Placing a hand on the box, and allowing her fingers to tap against it allowed her to tap into Trent’s niche. Visions flowed into her mind, that allowed her to witness Adora being confronted by a gang of thugs who’d been cat calling her. Rather then ignore them and be about her way, Adora who was on a power trip on her way home from the Benny Stein interview had confronted them. After getting into a heated argument she used a bolt of lightning to kill one of the men, then caused shadow tendrils to emerge piercing through the chest, & legs of another. The remaining five had drawn weapons opening ire only for Adora to fade into the shadows then emerged behind one of the men.

A plant vine sprung from her shoulder like webbing from Spiderman’s rest, and wrapped around the man’s forearm, before drawing spikes forth that disarmed the brute. The other four raised their guns to shoot with the fifth man pleading for them not to open fire on her as the bullets would surely pepper him as well. Whilst Adora goaded them to try to convince them to try to rinse her body in bullets, even with their friend at risk of being Swiss cheese.

“Come on ya idgits don’t shoot or I’m going with her, this broad is slippery.” The man pointed out as one of the four lunged forward drawing a knife. Adora spurned a net of electricity that served to disarm the other four, before a rumbling in the ground was heard. “The fuck” The man spoke before vies wrapped around them.

“Now it’s my turn.” Adora teased as her mass powers shrank the five of them, while the plants them up higher and higher till they were wrapped in plant material but eye level with her despite their miniature state. The sudden sound of sirens caused her to produce her puree and pull out a box, she plucked the thugs from their vines and pocketed them as well as the box before departing. The bodies of the other two she struck dow with shadows & lightning were still present.

In present times Amara smirked using a spark of lightning to burn down the other walls of the box, the four within avoiding the flames that came from the sparks. They huddled up in the enter of the box while Adora used a wave of TK energy to wipe out the flames and looked at the four gathered. “It seemed Adora took mercy on you pitiful fools, for what reason I don’t know, that’s not like her. Not like us I should say, I suppose I can understand avoiding the troublesome authorities, but not at the cost of not feeding the thirst. Or else I will be forced to come forth and show her how it’s done.”

“What are you gonna do with us! Please we ain’t mean shit, honestly you already got the one who got us to do all this, buddy you melted, the rest of us wasn’t with none of this shit.”

“Hell yeah we sorry.” One of the others said, and all four nodded in agreement, seemingly throwing their now deceased friend under the bus to get mercy from Amara who had them cornered.

“Oh please take some pride in yourselves, and stand on your two feet, and accept your fate or don’t, I honestly enjoy the fear it makes a meal better.” Amara stated as the dark veins moved somewhat causing the four too shiver. Amara spawned a shadow tendril that wrapped around one of them and pulled him forward towards her. The man screamed out as the tendril flicked the man into the air and Amara leaned forward opening up and swallowing the flying target. An audible gulp was heard intertwined with screaming from the man as he was sent to his death,

“Delicious, ah the thirst will be satisfied, see wass the so hard Dora, I’ll teach you how to replenish your reserves, and you all shut the fuck up you all weren’t making all this noise and begging when you wouldn’t leave me alone earlier I don’t wan to hear it.” Her eyes surged with red and black causing some heat that burned the three, followed by shadow tendrils being used to scoop the victims up. The tendrils shot them forward, literarily firing them into her mouth as she swished down the rest of them.

Taking out a deep breath of satisfaction, she leaned back as her body began drawing energy from the living people eaten. Not only would this cause satisfaction from getting a meal, the devouring of living flesh would allow her to maintain cerenium reserves without additional side effects from integrating & altering her genetic make-up. “Oh yes it is good to be back, and I got a welcome back meal at that.” Waltzing over to the kitchen telekinesis was used to bring forth a jugg of ice sweet tea and leftovers of a salad. She wolfed down the salad and downed the entire contents of the tea ravenously, before burping.

“Okay much better, desert and dinner, much preferable to a pointless buffet of drugs, although the heroin DID play a pivotal role in allowing me to surface easier without any struggle from dora dear.” Amara laughed manically and went on her laptop. Quickly going to twitter and going to the search bar. Within minutes she found a song that was trending “Break-in Bitches by Dinero Grande”, and went to genius to search the lyrics while opening a separate tab on youtube to listen to the song.

After giving it two listens she smirked. “Oh so that’s what Dinero Grande’s saying about me” Amara poised as the smirk turned into the grin. She found the lyrics to Breaking Bitches to be very interesting, as part of the song was a diss aimed towards woman in general, including a segment of the song that targeted powerful women some politicians, celebrities & altered woman including Lori Martinez. That part of the song had drawn controversy as while many feared & hated Lori since the incident, few had dared to make adequate actual threats towards her besides the military & US intelligence agencies.

Miami Murder Mayhem

“Let’s pay mister Dinero a visit, he’s the perfect one to spread my message." Amara concluded, as she waltzed towards the window. Opening it up with TK whilst turning invisible she took flight and left her residence. After reaching a great height she took her flight to the next level shattering the sound barrier accompanied by a very audible sonic boom. Moving at her max speeds mid flight it took no less than twenty five minutes to arrive outside of Dinero Grande’s residence.

A well fortified mansion with armed security, the rapper who spoke so eloquently about being his own security & being able to “knock off anyone regular or super with the Glock in my hand alone.” Sure had quite a bit of company. [b][color=pink]“Typical boasting about strength alone, but still relying on defense in numbers, no matter this will be just another chance to show Dora how things are done.”[/color[/b]] Amara spoke to herself, although Adora who had taken her place and was now locked in her own mind could hear Amara loud and clearly.

By this point she was reduced to echoes in the back of Amara’s mind, her voice just mental traces in the recess of Amara’s mind calling out from beyond the center of her mind asking Amara to relinquish her control of her body. “You still haven’t figured it out have you? I can’t give up the controller to you, because we are essentially the same. I’m you, the best you in-fact, the living personification of the thirst that accompanies this power. I surface when I’m inadequately fed, and lately I’ve been starving, although the ex cop was a welcome meal. The same way YOU need food AND drink, I need energy & flesh to fully satiate me Adora, one of which has been sorely lacking, Even with the energy of the consumed altered, it still isn’t enough for my appetite, stop being so picky in your regular meals, and perhaps it wouldn’t have to come to this baby.”

Please let me out! Let me out! I understand, I felt this before. I didn’t realize what it was, but now I know. Now I know Amara I know!!

“Then relax and enjoy your high, is that what you need some drugs.” Amara teased, causing Adora to be overwhelmed with a surge of opiate happiness. She directed the feelings of the intense high to her subconscious, allowing Adora to linger in a peaceful satisfied inebriated state. “That worked out better than expected, admittedly the feeling is truly amazing, I almost sat back & enjoyed it myself if not for the thirst clawing at me in order to feed it.” Amara mused as she flew down to the ground.

Landing on the pavement of the mansion’s outer side-walk, she began walking towards oe of the many doors. There were several entrances & numerous paths around the property. This was her first time coming to Dinero’s residence as either Amara or Adora. She took a few brief moments to soak in the architectural masterpiece of Dinero’s home, before manipulating her mass to p tase through the wall by the door making her way in Dinero’s home without causing any structure damage.

Something this nice mustn’t be so needlessly destroyed, especially when it can still come under the ownership of Zayas Properties, now to deal with the artist with the funny lyrics about me. He’ll learn not to bop his head to music taunting &mocking me, especially one he himself wrote how foolish. A mere mortal having the audacity to dishonor me AND to a lyrical melody?

Before long she entered the studio room where Dinero was inside recording, his engineer was working on his vocals. There were a few security guards, as well as some guys smoking some fat backwoods with some scantily clad black, hispanic & asian women in a room connected to the studio.

“You know keep sum on my hip, everywhere I go a yougin gotta blick, pow pow pow blow ya top off you can’t fix it with a bandaid, erryday we getting racks erred is band-day, mudafuck my birthday erryday is bandaid, sipping codeine pop blowing tops off ERRYDAY, like I said beFO BREAKING DESE HOES they going need BAND-AIDS, hit mew it da steel going be MAYDAY, OG Shooter aiming at Lori FACE, Fucka bus these bullets what she going taste, AR wit da beam it ain’t going leave trace, bank altered NICCA think I got the BAND PLAGUE” As Dinero was yelling into the mic suddenly it went off.

“Uhhh What da FUUUUCK!, what’s going on TruBlu where the beat at?!” Dinero asked calling out to his engineer.

“Aye aye dinneroo I told you don’t start wit dat shiddd lil niccaaa, I’m trynna figurrrrr dis shyt out rite naw Ion know was tannin gimme a second.” His engineer TrueBlu called back, while Amara shook her head and materialized much to the shock of others in the waiting room.

“Really this is the follow up song to breaking bitches, honestly I thought breaking bitches was more catchy, but this band plague is just trash, I’m really going have to torture you all for this.” Amara spoke calmly, while the women & other guys smoking started yelling from the girl with glowing black eyes appearing out of thin air, with TrueBlu beating his hand down on the counter.

“What the fuck is y’all negroes yelling for! We in the middle of a god damn session, you wanna get kicked out Dinero spot?! Huh!”

Right as the engineer barked orders a bolt of electricity struck him in the cranium causing the talented music maker to sprawl out against his keyboard unconscious. “Ssssh zaddy, be quiet, your one of the ones I want to live, or really the only one that matters. I quite enjoy your beats, and you don’t deserve to die just for doing your job, but the rest of you bums tagging along with Dinero, his entourage I find you fully guilty for allowing him to produce this trash, a bunch of yes men and yes bitchs, no one wanted him why it might not be a good idea to make distracts about violent superhuman women? Hmmm, I ain’t a white girl, I won’t tolerate this slander whether it’s catchy or not.”

“Oh my god who are you!? What the fuck are you talking about?!!! Barry get this bitch she came outta thin air.” One of the groupie woman yelled, while the one known as Barry came out with a gun, Dinero’s manager put his finger on the trigger.

“Bitch get outta here! You ain’t welcome on this property, I dunno who the fuck you are, but you got the wrong idea. We ain’t fucking with randoms, we don’t give a fukk if you altered!!!!” Barry yelled out.” Aye back me up security or all y’all getting fired TODAY RITE NA!!!!” He yelled out causing security to flood the waiting room with their weapons drawn.

Amara smirked as vines burst from the ground striking the hands of security guards with some of the vines piercing through their palms causing blood to spray. Shadow tendrils emerged blocking all the exits, then spawned chains of shadows that wrapped around the ankles of the women, security, Barry & the other guys tying them together in a knot of shadow and plant powers.

Amara shifted her appearance to that of Lori Martinez, and kissed one of the security guards causing his entire body to freeze, then tipped him over shattering the guard killing him. Adora then used her heat vision to burn out the eye sockets of one of the women, then increased the pressure causing the eye beams to burst through the back of the women’s head murdering her.

“Oh my god!!!! It’s the Lori Bitch!!!!!” Barry yelled out only for Amara to use TK to start choking him and slammed him against the ground. Then caused the door to the inner studio to open exposing Dinero who was on histogram live telling his fans he didn’t know why the session stopped, only to see the door got swung open by an invisible force. This alerted him, and his fans who began flooding his IG live with comment of concern upon seeing Lori Martinez was present, the same woman responsible for the mass murders in San Francisco.

“Pipe down Dinero, not so brave now fat too fat huh.” Amara teased causing his phone to fly from his hands and over to the security room. She then increased the size of the phone till it was the size of a small television, and caused the phone to soar to the ceilings and famed ice around the corners of the phone to freeze the enlarged phone to the ceiling to allow the instagram live to continue showing Amara, and her attacks on Dinoero’s entourage for all the rappers fans.

“Enough don’t you put a hand on none of my potnas” One of the men into entourage yelled, gripping his fists angrily.

“No Carter don’t do that, she got us on live.” Barry yelled out but Carter ignored Dinero’s manager and raised his hand unleashing a powerful shockwave that sent Amara hurtling through the window of the studio and smashing into one of the keyboards. Carter raised his fist snapping his fingers unleashing a second shockwave that demolished the equipment behind Amara and sent her crashing into a wall.

“Oh my gawd! Your altered, I been slipping with an altered nice” His girl yelled out in shock, a disgruntled hispanic/asian biracial woman, while Carter clapped his hands together emitting another shockwave tearing through the summoned vines allowing the security guards to retrieve their guns as Amara rose from the rubble, and flew forward she used TK blast swatting TruBlu’s body aside as well as a security guard who had retrieved their gun, Carter ford another shockwave at Amara blasting her back, only for her to use TK

“Enough you have one altered, it means nothing to me!” Amara screamed as she brushed some blood out her face, as she used the TK to snap Carter’s right knee then slammed him into the roof then pulled him down smashing him into a drum set. She swung her arm downwards sending vines to pierce Carter’s shoulders as well as firing ice shards at his head. Carter ducked and as Amara stepped forward gathering electricity she was caught by surprise as two bullets hit the back of her neck, c courtesy of Dinero who’d emerged from the studio room with his custom Glock opening fire on the violent altered woman who’d stormed his mansion & attacked his home studio.

“Yeah I said what I said BREAKING BITCHES, MOTHERFUCK A HOE NAMED LORI, pop her in the face this ah DINERO STORY.” The rapper yelled out quoting the lyrics to his track, as he pulled the trigger again causing a spray of bullets be planted into the back of Adora’s upper back as she collapsed to the ground blood rushing out spilling from her multiple bullet wounds from all the surprise shots Dinero had hit her with.

The comments in his IG live were going wild, and several fans viewing had contacted the authorities to update & alert them to the situation. The sound of sirens blaring accompanied the sounds of Dinero & others In his entourage reacting to the fact that one of his friends Carter was an altered with the power to produce shockwaves & Dinero emerging from the studio room to land surprise shots on Adora seemingly emerging victor against the vicious super killer who’d torn apart downtown San Francisco, California.

It seemed that she’d met her end in the mansion of this famous Miami rapper, who was sure to rise in fame if he’d really been responsible for gunning down one of the most fearsome & violent altered human killers that emerged thus far.

“Lucky shot bastard.” Amara said as she gurgled blood, and rose up to the shock of Dinero, Barry, Carter, Carter’s girlfriend, Dinero’s security & the rest of his entourage still living. The bullets lodged within her popped out as her skin reconnected, blood returning to her body as her wounds healed, the woman regenerating.

“N..N.....No….no…fuck!” Dinero yelled, as some of the people in the entourage rushed to the door almost breaking it down trying to escape. Adora used her TK power to form an invisible wall preventing anyone from being able to escape, then caused shadows to slip through the cracks of the door and shields, forming shadow tendrils which pierced through the far right & far left of the room allowing the shadow tendrils tendrils to tear through the skin/bodies of Dinero’s security & entourage.

“AAAAAAHHHHHHH” Amara screamed using sound manipulation to shatter all the glass in the area causing shards to rain in the studio and on those unlucky enough to be near windows in the studio room. Their ear-drums were of course the main target, causing blood to run from all their ears except TruBlu & Dinero who had in their studio headphones still which partially protected them from the sound based attack.

Using heat vision she plowed & sliced through the bodies of others in the entourage, murdering others leaving the waiting room soaked in the blood of now dead members of Dinero’s team intermixed with those from his security detail. Her body surged with electricity as she sent electricity surging forward, using the pools of blood soaked into the floorboards a conductor to kill more.

The sound of approaching sirens grew more louder & intense, as the LEO’s cruisers inched color & closer to Dinero’s spot. “Sounds like we have company on the way, that’s fine I’d like to make an announcement, and I felt you were the perfect vessel to re-iterate this message to the world. MR. Dinero Grande seeing as how the lyrics to some of your quite disturbing. My name is Amara, or as the public knows me Lori Martinez. That is only one of my forms & identities, am here to tell the world on your live that the time of mere mortals is up. It is time for the age of my children, the altered to rise up, the Energy Storm was a predetermined event that has led to my return to the land of the living & the re-emergence the chosen ones, those who are strong enough to manifest power from being exposed to that which is within what you people call the energy plague.” Amara spoke

Dinero’s IG live usually had a high number of people in it, and typically settled around the lower millions. However the events that had transpired in the past few minutes had raised the viewer count to a staggering 30 million, including members of the Miami police department who had tuned in to get a preview of what they were walking into. This prior insight into the events going down at Dinero’s mansion had led to them preemptively calling back up from Miami PD’s Swat Teams to handle the Amara/Lori Martinez situation.

“Shawty I ain’t got nun to do with nun dat, please let my bruddas and sisters go, the ain’t had no part in this shit that was me, I choose to say what I said on the song, and. Stamp dat. I ain’t mean to say nun trifling to yu, that’s just how I been brought up since a jit, I Ayn going lie I ain’t think yu was going pop up onnakidd, honestly I been suspect of dis whole altered shyt n da plague since it started on sum conspiracy shyt, but I’m wrong but it all shit I shudda, gotta git da vassine pls don’t kill no mo of my ppls!!!!” Dinero cried out at the end of his spew of words directed towards the vicious Amara and her ruthless attacks on Dinero and his entourage.

“Oh please all that gibberish coming from your mouth is the definition of angering, it has truly made me irate. I wonder if such words are even within the realms of you vocabulary with what I assume to be your limited scope of mental ability. FOR THOSE WHO SEEK MERCY FROM AMARA LEARN TODAY THAT I AM NOT TOLERATE OF NAYSAYERS, and FOUL MOUTHED MOCKERS!!!!!! I WILL DELIVER SWIFT PUNISHMENT TO THOSE WHO I ENCOuNTER WHO VIOLATE THESE PRINCIPLES AND TENANTS I HAVE UTTERED, IF YOU SEEK MERCY! Build large statues of me, erect temples in my name, and issue sacrifices to my being or else pain shall surely be brought down to your lives.”

Amara laughed maniacally as she used her mass powers to miniaturize Barry, Carter, and the rest of the survivors including dinero. Summoning shadow tendrils that began poking them the tendrils began flicking them towards her and she opened up wide swallowing the survivors one by one as tendrils flicked them towards her.

Carter fired a shockwave blasting away the tendril and firing a shockwave that damaged one of Amara’s teeth, causing her to spawn a vine from her mouth that wrapped around Carter and formed thorns piercing his skin all over. The vines then pulled hm in and she gulped him down, before tendrils pushed in a screaming Barry who tried to no avail to slow Amara down with his now miniaturized gun.

Dinero himself screamed as Amara scooped the mini rapper up with her thumb and index finger, using electricity to torture him before flinging him in and gulping down the rapper as well. “FLESH!!!!” Amara screamed out the thirst driving her to these cannibalistic actions, as she used TK to pull the last four groupie girls towards her. As they all screamed Adora blew on them sending forth a cold breeze that painfully could them, before chewing them apart violently murdering them before swallowing down what remains of there crushed up remains.

The only one left surviving was the producer TrueBlue, Amara caused the phone to be released from its icy restraints, and carried outside telekinetically as she flew outside the mansion. Coming towards the front entrance she was greeted by several police cruisers, helicopters, and armored trucks ran by SWAT.

“Oh a welcoming party or rather an exit party, I’m sure you Miami pigs don’t care about celebrity rappers.”

“Ma’am put your hands behind your back and lay down your under arrest!!!” The Swat captain yelled through a megaphone.

Amara burst out into laughter causing shadow tendrils to emerge from the captain’s shadow piercing his throat, then surging forward through his cruiser and another officer and a cruiser forming a shadow shish-ka-bob of cops and cruisers and used TK to fling the whole mess into a chopper downing them, followed by summoning violent streaks of lightning dow plowing through the police helicopters.

The remaining cops & SWAT officers opened fire on Amara who used her powers to grow to gigantic heights and stomped forward causing mini tremors in the ground. Heat vision emerged from her eyes drilling through police vehicles & officers violently slaughtering them. She also raised the phone in the air to get an aerial view as she maintained the live and used her mass powers to further increase the size of the phone.

Amara caused darkness & shadows to emerge from the ground beneath the officers lifting them into the air and flinging them in the air as Amara used TK to form her own shockwave that sent them flying towards her, and sh opened up gulping down SWAT & officers alike with a big gulp, then burped unleashing a sound blast that demolished the remaining officers in the area and wiping out several houses and stores infant of her for miles, Amara then used TK to crush the phone and flung the enlarged phone into some approaching cruisers.

“I’ve had my fun.” The glowing black eyed violent altered woman mused as she returned to her original size, turned invisible, and took off in the opposite direction towards her h

Supernatural - Hell On The Horizon

Castiel and Uriel

The murder of angels was a very serious thing & grave crime against the celestial order. This recent trade was a disturbing one, the soldiers of Heaven hadn't walked the earth in an organized fashion in nearly 2000 years. Yet within months no weeks of there arrival and return to humanity's domain a number of them had been slain.

Even with the breaking of the seals with the intent to liberate the devil from his cage, it was a bit unnerving that some of his winged brethren had already fallen to the enemy hand. Was it possible that the demons were behind this, all but the oldest of their kin hadn't even known the truth of angel's existence until there return return to walking the earth. So that seemed likely, still Castiel had been tasked by his garrison to investigate this peculiar matter & Uriel was to oversee his investigation.

Since his meeting with Dean Winchester & researching his past prior to being captured in Hell just like his father there were many happenings that were of intrigue & concern to the faith filled angel. One thing that truly was astounding to him that many angels seemed to overlook was Dean's father John, a righteous man like him had ended up in Hell. But even more mysteriously after Dean & Sam had liberated him from Hell two years ago, he was admitted into Heaven. Whilst a quick examination of his life showed that it was no strange matter that John had ended up in Heaven, his spot was well deserved with the years he spent vanquishing evil.

The part that was a true mystery, was typically souls that had plummeted into hell were doomed to be forbidden from admission into Heaven. Of course souls almost always ended up in their proper spiritual resting him, John had been a special case. But legend & lore stated that only the almighty father God himself could allow a soul tainted by the tortures of hell to still enter through the pearly gates.

"This is most interesting, I've stopped by John's heaven." Castiel stated to his angelic brother in arms only receiving a scowl from Uriel.

"So a monkey that was in the furnace, managed to slip into our domain. I don't see why you find it so interesting, after all it seems the demons original plan was to have Alastair shatter his will to break the first seal, but unlike his son who we ourselves liberated John never broke and that was without Heaven's help, honestly if you ask me we would have been better off raising him from the dead, then risking our own kind to break his brat son out of hell, he hasn't exactly been co-operative with our methods, our plans to stop Lucifer's return to the land of the living." Uriel retorted, showing that although he generally was very dismissive of humans, he had a begrudging respect for John Winchester. Although he'd never been cast into Hell himself, like all angels he had innate knowledge of the true horrors of that dimension, things that made even some angels quiver in fear like a child like being .

"No we stick to our orders, all these years and the garrison has't been wrong. To defy them, to defy Naomi would be almost the same thing as disobeying our father." Castiel said firmly, he still had his questions, but direct disobedience was out of the question for him.

The Energy Storm

I've updated "Post Zero" in the IC thread to include a RECAP of the RP thus far, even though we're only on page six some of the posts earlier in the RP were a bit lengthy as the premise of the RP was being introduced. Thus a paragraph by paragraph summary of the major/main events that's occurred so far will be written by me. I'll probably update the RECAP monthly, but at least every other month and definitely if we cross into a new Volume.

Any Lore that's introduced in the IC thread that's relevant to the world of Energy Storm will eventually find it's way into Post Zero in the OOC section such as the Emergency Altered Act rules & brief history/summary of the Forrester Family & Forrester Corporation.

Also whilst this RP does have a discord link, use/usage of discord is not mandatory to participate in this RP, although it does help with real time interaction with other players & spur of the moment plot development/character & world building.

As always, we're currently still open to any new players who wish to join this spectacular tale of superhumans in the modern world with some interesting twists. :)

The Energy Storm

RECAP {{THE STORY THUS FAR}}

Energy Storm is set in the real world with an alternate history that's mostly similar to the real world. Barack Obama was the previous president in the RP world, but the current president is David Forrester rather then Donald Trump. In the world of Energy Storm David Forrester managed to nab the republican nomination for president rather then Trump, but similarly to him he has no prior political experience & comes from a multi billionare background. His family owns the Forrester Corporation, a multi billion dollar biotech company that's had some previous association with controversy one most notable one being key partners & funding sources for the opioid epidemic/crisis. The Energy Storm occured on February 2, 2018 and caused energy beams to rain down on North America. These destructive beams of raw energy devastated parts of the country, taking the lives of 10 million American Citizens throughout the course of the few hours of the day they occured.

Soon after the country was gripped by a second disaster, that of the Energy Plague. The Plague has about the same symptoms as Covid-19 in the real world, leading to millions of Americans falling ill. Federal & State Governments implemented measures across the country to halt the spread of the virus including mask mandates & quarantines. Jonah Hanes, the director of Liberty transfered to Liberty's California office to investigate rumors of altered humans joining the Salzaras Cartel. Due to the enregy plague America's borders closed blocking people from leaving & entering the country to prevent the spread of the plague. This had an unintended effect of dealing a major blow to the illegal drug business, further restricting drug traffickers brining drugs ino the country. The Salzaras Cartel remained un-effected by the closing of the borders due to recruiting & using superhumans to aid them with getting drugs into the country, making them a powerhouse among the other cartels who could no longer get drugs into the USA with the border closures.

Jonah also investigated video messages from the masked revolutionary Reaper who encouraged altered humans to unite & work against the United States to fight against their oppression. He also studied Benny Stein a popular talk show host who'd gained an immense following for his intense unwavering negative view towards the altered. Anya is an undercover Russian FSS agent who infilitrated the United States Intelligence Community & is working as a leading field agent in Liberty directly under Director Hanes. SHe feigned having information about Shade, a notorious altered human killer who was waging a one man vigilante war against organized violent crime in California, specifically in San Francisco, Oakland & LA. Shade's real identity is that of Jace Williams a youtuber running a financial consultation business. Due to a bloody past with many of his family being killed by thugs he's devoted the use of his powers to murdering violent criminals like the ones who killed his loved ones. He ran into Anya who was masquerading under the alias as a US Agent Jennifer Donovan & struck an alliance with her. Jace offering to help her Russian employers in exchange for money & intel on Liberty the black ops group in charge of monitoring & policing Altered Humans in the United States.

Thomas is a native american & another person who the plague converted into an altered human. He moved to San Francisco where he'd already gotten a job & place to stay. Before long he would up in the midst of a battle between two masked altered one with super strength & the other with ice manipulation. With no choice he exposed his own powers to the ice-user named Xavier in effort to rescue him from a brutal death at super strong vigilante, who unlike Shade was hunting & killing all manner of crooks for crimes even petty ones. The Authorities managed to capture the ice wielding thief named Xavier, and transported him to a hospital in custody. While the extra strong vigilante & Thomas both managed to escape without any further connection or investigation from law enforcement.

Another altered named Amelia Mendez with the power of artistic animation, meaning she can draw things into existence used her power generously to generate food & supplies for nearby charities & people at FEMA camps who lost their homes in the eneergy storm. Another girl with powers named Alexis was using her powers of luck manipulation to get herself a hefty amount of cash in Las Vegas, but had built up a bad reputation as a suspected cheater at many casino's in Vegas. The President, David Forrester made an announcement that his older brother Nathan Forrester's company Forrester Corporation had devised a blood test that could determine if people were regular or altered. As such the Government had purchased the technology further enriching the Forrester Family & made blood testing mandatory for all americans. A declaration was made that all people must submit to testing within a week, and after seven days anybody found to be an altered who didn't submit to the test prior to the deadline would be commiting a felony & could be arrested by law enforcement. He also deployed the national guard to all fifty states to help forrester corporation scientists & local law enforcement administer the tests on a national scale.

Alexis was worried about her twin sister whom she feared might easily comply with these blood tests & returned home to San Francisco to check on her concerned that her sister might have also gotten powers from the energy plague. Sanzhar a journalist with metal manipulation was living at home with his family and was currently struggling in his career. Alexis flew out to San Francisco and upon searching for her twin learned that she'd adopted the alias Angel. Not only that but apparently she'd built up a reputation as a sort of under-ground medic/healer for those who could't afford or visit traditional medical facilities & doctors. Marcus was another altered human wth molecular acceleration who worked for Liberty, a military veteran who conducted missions to eliminate dangerous altered who used their powers for illicit funds & violence.

On top of the Blood Tests, the Forrester Administration went a step farther & enacted the Emergency Altered Act in conjunction with congress. These were a set of laws that implemented restrictive measures to altered humans such as a national curfew, banning the use of powers in public, making it illegal to be at certain locations such as schools & banning them from certain occupations/professions including law enforcement, the legal field, medical field & educational/teaching field. These led to protests erupting around the country from minority communities who felt these new laws would be used to enact racist practices against people of color who weren't even altered humans. Floyd Banker an empath was another altered human who was living in San Francisco, and working with Rita Salzaras, the sister of Hector Salzaras head of the Salzaras Cartel. As a result he was flush with drugs to sell including marijuana, cocaine & prescription pills. Aside from his illegal ventures with the Salzaras he ran a marketing & media company called PlugRich Media. As a consequence of his power he'd picked up horrific precognitive dreams from a semi consistent sexual fling he'd had with a girl named Luna who was plagued with future visions of death & other horrific events.

The most alarming set of visions he had was of modern civilization itself being wiped out in a series of violent explosions a year after the Energy Storm in February of 2019. The only clues he'd acquired from the vision was that it had something to do with something called Operation KIVA. While watching the news with Rita Salzaras, he learned CyberCorp a billionare tech conglomerate & main rival to the Forrester Corporation was planning to unveil Project KIVA to the public in a matter of months or sooner. Aside from the nightmarish visions he was primarily using his powers to help his criminal & legal business endevours as well as play harsh pranks on people he didn't like. He ended up going out for drinks with one of his friends Darius at TAP/Taste of Paradise, a joint strip club & bar. Whilst there they became aware of the Forrester Administration's new measures including the blood tests & Emergency Altered Act. His evening was interrupted by a confrontation with Lionel, a powerful gang leader who'd gained the power to cover his skin in organic metal coating. With his powers him & his gang had began extorting several legitimate business's in San Francisco & Oakland for protection from them & other criminal groups including those working with altered as well.

Floyd used his own power to emulate Lionel's power & fought him to a stale-mate, but ultimately Lionel was stronger then him with his own innate powers. Thanks to some quick thinking and help from Darius he managed to escape TAP after a brutal showdown in the club, From there he sought out Rita who was irate that he came straight to her residence after the battle, but ultimately decided he'd have to get a better grasp on his powers to survive another encounter with Lionel & went as far as to suggest they kill him before he takes their lives. Alexis made headway on tracking down her sister Angel and went to a local populated FEMA Camp where t was rumored that Angel resided. Marcus the killer Liberty agent also made his way to the same camp in search for Angel as she was on his list to be terminated.

Another altered named Jason Koravil also mulled about in the city of San Francisco, using his powers to read the minds of others & weed out racists & other undesirable people. With his alternate split personality Justice he used his powers to trigger accidents to harm, maim & kill others he felt didn't belong in civilized society. Aside from his judgement killings Jason Koravil was a therapist with his own practice who started & managed a secret altered support group with help from his girlfriend Saiyu whom had the power to control emotions. He sought to use the support group as a means to locate & recruit altered humans to an organized resistance against government oppression of their kind. To this end he also went to the FEMA Camp Amalia, Alexis & Marcus went too. He visited 2-3 times a week to deliver supplies & to use his mental powers to find altered to join him just like he did with the support group. THere he ran into Marcus who made a public showcase of his abilities to get the attention of everyone in the camp to accelerate his search for Angel, whilst at the same time he decided to quit Liberty after the passing of Forrester's emergency act. He decided to finish wiping out the altered human criminals on the list Liberty gave him, but added President David Forrester to that list as well having contempt for him after the passing of his discriminatory emergency altered act.

Another altered & ex military veteran named Karagoz also a resident of San Francisco was infuriated by the new anti altered laws passed by the Government. He used his powers to violently murder members of the national guard deployed help administer the blood tests, as well as scientists & others working at the center taking on the codename Silver Flame. His super powered murder spree caught the attention of Michelle, a woman with the power to create clones who was waltzing about and happened to run into the blood testing center as Karagoz murdered everyone working there. Anya made a positive impression on Jonah Hanes who was suspisious of her as well as others working for Liberty trying to weed out infiltrators. She presented him Shade's mask but regrettably informed him that SHADE escaped. Still her effectiveness put Jonah's fears about her to rest & raised his trust in her, although his dedication to his wife Amelia & family made him immune to her attempted seductive tactics to reel him in closer.

Jonah told her to focus on hunting Marcus who defected from Liberty & allowed his racism to show as he explained his anger that Marcus had fled & betrayed Liberty. Anya agreed to prioritize hunting down Marcus, but ended up kidnapping & torturing Dr. Scott a scientist working for the US to study the altered human phenomenon. Dr. Scott refused to divulge information leading to her Russian superiors to order her to kill him as she couldn't obtain any worthwhile intel from him. Jason allowed his other personality Justice to take control of him to handle the confrontation with Marcus who proved to have little patience for anyone who didn't have information about Angel. Justice was taking the reigns for Jason's body more & more as of late, as Jason wasn't able to handle being violent to others with his main personality. He used his powers to track down Angel & provide a mental image to Marcus in exchange for posing an inquiry to him about joining forces with his resistance finding Marcus's powers to be a useful asset to his operation.

Next the story brought in Dean Rivers, a black SFPD{{San Francisco Police Department}} Narcotics Officer who was stumped at how drugs were flowing into the country again with the border closed. He worked closely with his partner & fellow officer Lisa in the investigation, with them deducing that altered humans were the cause of this sudden influx of drugs getting into the country with thet closed borders. Another case that had caught & held Dean's attention was a string of missing women, mostly of ethnic backgrounds that seemed to begin occurring shortly after the energy plague began spreading through the country. After solidifying his alliance with the russian spy Anya Jace decided to take a break from his vigilante activities. He sought to meet up with his girlfriend Nikita who worked at a hair salon ran by her mother in downtown San Francisco. He learned that Lionel had successfully extorted her & fueled with rage he sought to hunt Lionel down as Shade unaware that Lionel also had altered powers.

At the local jail a girl named Lori Martinez was being held with extra security, as she had the power of optic beams. A week prior she was a promising nursing student who attempted use her powers to murder her fiance & the woman she'd found having sex with him in their shared apartment. Liberty had scheduled a transport of her to their secret maximum security prison for altered humans, and the FBI sent an Agent Mayas to conduct a thorough investigation of her before she was picked up. Agent Mayas turned out to be the alias of a murderous altered human with shape-shifter named Adora in disguise. As Mayas she revealed her parents had put up their home as collateral to get Lori released and only because the two people she attempted to kill had survived her laser beams & the Forrester's harsh measures hadn't been in a effect yet when she conducted her vengeful attack fueled by her fiancee's betrayal of her trust.

Adora ended up absorbing Lori's power & life-force, before taking her form. Upon doing that she murdered the guards nearby & elsewhere in the hallway before flying out a self created hole in the roof. Descending in the streets below still in Lori's form she declared war on humanity claiming to be motivated & enraged by the Forrester Administration's new anti altered policies. The main one which she attributed to her anger was that the emergency act declared that altered humans weren't a protected class. During the midst of this chaos, another altered human named Cynthia Ortiz was making her self at home in San Francisco. She was Hector Salzaras lover, and had powers that allowed her to manipulate the memories & minds of others making her a valuable asset as well as being a pro with technology. Her primary assistant Jessica divulged to her that she'd accidentally exposed her being an altered to a man who was dating a woman in the Salzaras Cartel. She also tried to reason with Cynthia to get an Altered ID License rather then one that hid her altered status which she'd easily acquired due to her powers.

This infuriated Cynthia & led to her having Jessica executed. With the chatty secretary dead she contacted Hector to let him know she'd confirmed his suspicion that someone was stealing drugs from them. She resolved to continue her investigation into the matter & uncover who was behind the thefts. Anya working on her own accord set up a meeting with Marcus whom she'd formed a somewhat close personal relationship with during their combined tenure in Liberty. Marcus agreed to meet with her at Botanical Guardian but planned to stay on guard in case she had plans of betraying him to Liberty. Setting aside the information Jason delivered to him about Angel, Marcus left the premise not wanting to run into law enforcement as his scuffle with Jason had no doubt alerted the authorities as both of them had used their powers in the open at the FEMA Camp.

Jace ended up burying money he'd confiscated from a group of violent coke dealers he'd murdered earlier before meeting with Anya in the backyard area of Nikita's mother's salon. His attention was drawn outside where a nine foot mutant monster with sharp claws was on a rampage outside killing civilians and fighting off soldiers & cops called to fight. Donning his SHADE gear he ordered Nikita & her mother to escape while he went outside to fight the creature who put up a fight despite his super strength. As the battle raged on the creature briefly pulled off his mask & almost killed him. Thanks to the timely intervention of the metal bending journalist Sanzhar Jace was able to get his bearings & re-mask himself before re-joining the fight against the monster now with help from Sanzhar.

Meanwhile Adora decided to use one of her most potent acquired abilities of mass control & turned herself into a giant towering at 200 feet. Still in Lori's guise she put her power to use as well as others she stole to go on a violent relentless rampage in downtown San Francsico murdering thousands without a care while shouting about humans being inferior to altered humans. A bystander altered human named Eric King with the power to tamper with time stepped in to play his hand at slowing down Adora's rampage but ultimately proved useless and fled himself to escape her rampage. She made her way to the hospital where Lori's fiancee & cheater were, killing them then demolishing the entire hospital among other structures without mercy. The police & national guard worked together to evacuate people from the area to allow the air force to deploy & take down the giant woman without worrying about civilian casualties in the process.

Michelle used her power to confront Karagoz, trying to lecture him about the consequence of indiscriminately murdering soldiers & thers enforcing the laws against altered. She pleaded with him to stop trying to explain that his actions would only lead to the Government passing more restrictive measures directed at their freedom. Karagoz was unphased using his own powers to threaten Michelle, but offering her once chance to flee as she too was altered. Michelle realizing she wasn't getting through to him took that opportunity & retreated feeling her clones were no match for his powerful flames. Marcus passed by Adora's rampage as Lori on his way to Botanical Guardian & added her to the list as well as Forrester viewing her as a monster who would lead to more negative laws being made against Altered. He went to meet Anya downtown, who offered him a place with her Russian employers. Despite betraying Liberty Marcus had only left because of his morals & refusal to support Liberty any longer after Forrester's passing of the Altered Act. He refused to join Anya not wanting to be a traitor to the nation due to his patriotism & military back-ground. He used his powers to flee after denouncing Anya, who was infuriated that Marcus wouldn't join & reported the incident to the Russian FSS.

Rafael was a marijuana dealer & a drunk who resided at his shared apartment with two others including his best friend Dave. As they partook in alcohol & marijuana consumption they felt tremors from Adora's nearby rampage. When police came to the residence o warn them to evacuate, they were at first fearful that they were being raided for dealing drugs. Upon learning the situation the two friends fled the apartment, where outside Rafael was hit by a speeding car trying to escape Adora's rampage dowtown. To his drunken surprise Rafael was unharmed, but this led to Dave outing his friend as an altered. Putting him in the same category as the giant woman murdering people downtown he was consumed with fear of his own friend & fled abandoning him causing Rafael intense sadness.

Another woman Olivia was also in San Francisco for college, and her father Jack the head of the CIA was determined to get her to leave due to all the altered violence taking place in the city. Olivia refused denouncing her father as paranoid & declaring her safety as she was far from Adora's murderous rampage downtown. Meanwhile Jonah had went to the hospital earlier before Adora destroyed it to interrogate the ice manipulating thief Xavier who was kept under heavy sedation. Upon learning he was a drug addict he offered him an injection of his drug of choice for intel about the incident that led to his arrest. THere he learned more about the super strong altered & that the native american Thomas who saved his life had powers as well. Jonah slipped Xavier drugs which he took and overdosed from as Jonah had spiked the dose. He was picked up by one of his altered liberty agents a psycholgist named Karlina who took him back to headquarters. There he ran into Nathan Forrester, who revealed to him that one of their plans had took a turn for the worst. It turned out Jonah & Nathan had fabricated both the story & identity of Reaper, to use him as a means to paint the altered as more dangerous than they were. The problem being that someone had actually taken on Reaper's identity & was releasing messages that encouraged violent rebellion against the US Government whereas the ones they had released had only instructed altered to protest and complain but not actually resort to violent measures.

With Sanzhar's help Jace finally managed to murder the mutant monster using his powers to raise the strength of an RPG missile to finish the beast off. The Military & Police tried to arrest them despite saving lives, forcing them to flee in Jace's jeep. They had to use their powers against the lawmen to escape into the woods. There Jace fled to a nearby second safehouse he had allowing Sanzhar to accompany him for saving his life. Sanzhar trashed his phone's sim card fearing the law identifying him & coming after his family. The two started a friendship & began bonding over their altered status & how it affected their lives & professions, whilst Jace confessed his reasons for being Shade to him.

Jonah ordered his field agent Angela to flee Adora's attack downtown, forcing her to take to the sewers to escape. His secretary and trusted agent Patricia presented evidence that the liberty agent Austin Green was working with the enemy. Jonah went to interrogate him learning Green was working with Adora, the source of her multiple powers & that Green had accidentally helped her get more powers. In a rage Jonah murdered Green & intimidated agents guarding the cells to support his lies that he killed Green in self defense. The U.S Navy & Air-force operated together to launch a joint counter-attack on Adora, involving Sergent Gonzalez from the Navy who had the power of teleportation. Gonzalez used his powers to teleport Adora away from downtown San Francisco to the ocean nearby a war-ship hoping to gun her down. Thanks to Adora's ability to fly this plan failed, and ended with her capsizing the ship slaughtering several soldiers. She flew back to San Francisco, overpowered the jets deployed by the air-force & murdered additional thousands of people before returning to regular size & fleeing the scene.

Floyd ended up visiting Amelia the artistic animator whom he already had a personal & business relationship with. Seeking money outside of what Lionel knew to avoid extortion he sought out her graphic talents to aid him into going into the business of selling doctored altered registration ID's. While there they both uncovered each other's powers leading to further bonding & even sleeping together. Dave, Rafael's roommate who fled from him earlier after witnessing his powers ended up kidnapped by a deranged scientist. The scientist was animal's as a conduit to try to transfer altered powers to caucasian individuals motivated to not let minorities outshine his own race in raw power.

Cybercorp Headquarters made a demonstration of new robotic warmachine it had developed called the XP9. In light of Adora's tragic attack the CEO Norman Chaplin had taken advantage to secure a joint military/law enforcement contract for his machines overriding President Forrester who was against it due to his family business being their main competitor.