MISSION 2: BRAZILIAN BLOWOUT<br/><br/>Characters Involved:<br/>Huntress<br/>Lor Zod<br/>Icon<br/>Static<br/>Geoforce/Firestorm<br/>Rocket<br/><hr/><br/>The briefing for this mission was delivered by the Flash and Cyborg. Although both members of the Justice League had a reputation for easy-going jokers, when it came down to business they were almost as serious as the Batman. Cyborg employed his implants to project data onto screen, while he and the Flash relayed information to the team. The Flash gave a crash course on Brazil, explaining the official language was Portuguese, but also giving a brief history of the Southern State of Santa Catarina - the team's destination - that highlighted the German settlement in the early twentieth century that resulted in German continuing to be widely spoken there. Cyborg also drew attention to Brazilian forces, including recruits drawn from Santa Catarina, had fought against the Axis and that the image of Brazil as a refuge for Nazis was an overblown Hollywood stereotype.<br/><br/>The Flash gave a brief introduction of their contact on the ground - one Beatriz da Costa, AKA Fire, a former model turned superhero employed by the Brazilian government and with ties to INTERPOL. Fire had pyrokinetic abilities and the power of flight. She could assume an energy based form composed of green fire.<br/><br/>From there, Cyborg showed the suspicious travel patterns of certain cargo freighters and discrepancies in their shipping manifests, tonnages, and cargoes. The salient takeaway was that the ships were stopping in Santa Prisca and Santa Catarina for seemingly no reason, and arriving at their final destination often over but sometimes underweight. Wherever one of these vessels docked at in America, the outlying areas would see a spike in illicit drug use. At first, various formulations of Venom were in distribution, but more and more recently a more potent chemical enhancement was entering distribution. Although it had some of the effects that Venom had, the new super-serum's formula, isolated from the blood of criminals, showed more chemical consistency with Formula X.<br/><br/>"Formula X is bad news. That's the stuff that gave Captain Nazi his powers back in World War 2. Captain Nazi possessed powers on par with Superman, and he was able to fight on equal footing with the Starman of World War 2." The Flash said, alluding to one of Stargirl's predecessors. "Fire informed us that U.N. satellites have found several shielded facilities in the mountains of Santa Catarina, and the prevailing theory is that someone's trying to re-create Formula X. What's out there isn't quite the same - it doesn't give flight or heat vision, and it's not permanent - but every batch gets closer to matching the old recipe. Your job's to go down there, find out what's happening, and if there is some mad scientist trying to cook up Formula X, shut it down. That's a ghost we want to stay buried in the past."<br/><br/>That concluded the briefing in the Secret Sanctuary. From there the team had time to suit up and take anything from the Sanctuary's armoury they might want or conceive of needing for before teleportation to sunny Santa Catarina, whereupon they were greeted by Fire.<br/><br/>Fire was currently not in her energy form, so that Brazilian bombshell was dressed in a tight crop top and micro-skirt. Both were a rich green that complemented and flattered her hair and eyes. And, of course, displayed her 10/10 curves to maximum effect. No male alive would need a little blue pill with Fire around.<br/><br/>Fire's full, plush lips turned into a disappointed frown. "I was hoping the Flash was coming." The woman said with a sigh of carefully affected petulance. "But oh well. Greetings to everyone! I'm Fire. Six kilometers north from here is the largest of three shielded bases, so it's the first to investigate. The mountain is also a dormant volcano so there's that going for it. The potential for geothermal energy to power a facility purposed for creating super-serums is an obvious hint."<br/><br/>The mountain in question could be seen by the naked eye, but to those with x-ray vision or equipment that offered perception on that spectrum, the mountain was shielded by artificial materials that concealed something within.