It was the spring of 1942 as Kit took to the skies once more. New York City had this nervous tension in the air whenever people looked east, like they could see across the ocean to the continent plunged into war. Heck, according to Kit it wasn't just New York- it was the whole of the United States. The USA was just beginning to take part in the war overseas, but most people could read the writing on the wall. It wasn't going to be a limited support roll like many captains of industry wanted it to be.<br/><br/>Unofficially, Kit knew that America has been involved for a while. According to his sources, American spies were on the ground in the European theater within a month of the first bomb hitting England. American pilots had signed on the the RAF not long after that. And, according to Kit's sources, Nazi spies have been on the ground even longer.<br/><br/>This would be Kit's Baptism of Fire, he could see it now. The New York based superhero got lucky before, the case had looked like some random madman was attacking the families of the officers of our boys overseas. Some wives and children roughed up, and when there were no kids the maniac usually made a very real attempt to rape the wife. Fortunately, by the time he actually got to a wife of an officer that didn't have kids his pattern was clearly figured out by the OSS- and at the first sign of SkyMan he'd bolt. The wives in question were rightfully spooked, roughed up a bit, and enough torn clothing that they wouldn't be considered decent- but he'd gotten there in time so far.<br/><br/>And now there's been a break in the case. The attacks were a smokescreen, what seems to be a deranged maniac was actually a coldly calculating spy. His real goal was the covers and assignments of active OSS agents and spies from the New York area. From when the g-man told him, that meant dozens of our side's best intelligence operatives would be compromised- and dead within 24 hours if the spy made it to his rendezvous with his handler.<br/><br/>To make things even worse, as far as anyone could tell the spy had a hostage- the ravishing reporter for the Times, Angela Kincaid. Nobody knew for sure if he did, of course- but she did have enough moxie to go after him herself if she figured it all out, and she was definitely smart enough to. Add that to the fact that she's been missing for about 4 hours now, things didn't look good. And if Helga, the admittedly stunningly beautiful and enigmatic blonde woman believed to be the local nazi spymaster, was present this could get ugly quick.<br/><br/>The rendezvous was the old quarry out of town, and while the spy had a head start that could be as long as 2 hours, SkyMan was much faster then any car would ever be.<br/><br/>"<strong>Time to man up.</strong>" Kit tells himself, gaining altitude and streaking across the New York skyline.