<strong>Ada (NYC)</strong><br/><br/>The night passed soon, and the next day came. The room had its own stench but there was a bed to rest on and some food that was actually clean in the fridge, though only things that could be touched were the ones still in sealed packages. As the next noon neared, Ada could hear a door opening and watching through the wall, she could see a tall man in a fine suit and well groomed hair. Behind him came 2 others in suits, nearing the doorway just as he stepped over the treshold. The two guys a few steps behind.<br/><br/>"Wake up lazy sons of bitches, what have you got for me?" Tony shouted from the doorway moving towards the common area, separated from Ada by the thin wall from the entrance.<br/><br/><hr/><hr/><strong>Beat (Baltimore)</strong><br/><br/>The kick landed against the guy's chest with a hard blow, knocking most of the air out of him but even as he staggered he seemed to clear his head quickly, and though bruised, aimed a swing of the chian towards Beat's back. The metal barely missed Beat's body, swatting on clothing but missing the flesh, as the man glared at him, the rest of the group's thugs on the ground groaning, one holding his head and another grasping his knee.<br/><br/>"Get up and help me fight this bastard!" The man still standing shouted but only groans answered him. The shake seemed to have had an effect, stunning them for a short moment, but they might get up again once more shortly.<br/><br/><hr/><hr/><strong>Myriad (LA)</strong><br/><br/>Marie nod her head at Val's assessment of the situation. "I agree, things moved against you at a far too quick pace. We anticipated some trouble beforehand but nothing organized especially this quickly. Nothing to worry about yet, we have media on our side at this point, and your openness has made you a darling of the public. Attacks against you will have to be careful too. Its that support that the foe seems to be aiming to cut down first, so good publicity is going to only make things harder for them. Best thing we can do is to take care of business and show the world you are what it needs."<br/><br/>Marie smirked at this point and then chuckled. "Get some rest, its been a long day, I'll make the arrangement to have the photoshoot with Hef tomorrow alright?" She smiled to Val, patting on the other woman's shoulder softly before moving to get herself another drink.<br/><br/><hr/><hr/><strong>Myriad (NYC)</strong><br/><br/>Checking out her email Val found a few messages, congratulations from friends allowed to know her e-mail, as well as a bunch of well-wishes. There was also a forwarded message from the Myriad Inc that contained the information on the photoshoot with Hef, as well as two other jobs.<br/><br/>One of them was for a fashion shoot, wanting to shoot dozens of outfits in a very short time on South Pacific with idyllic backdrop for the new clothing coming out soon, and a notice of a large sum to make the shoot exclusively hers. Attached was a summarized offer of wanting to capitalize on her ability by having her show off the collection and cutting trouble down by only having to deal with '1 contract'.<br/><br/>The last offer was to put 2 of her into a film that was being made, something called<em>Last Days War.</em>The contract was summarized, she would take up the role of an angelic soldier of heaven at one side, and a demonic soldier of hell on another, and the movie would also contain some other large names on it, capitalizing on the fear of the apocalypse in the air. There was an added warning that the summary given suggested it might be risque in some content and was bound to rile up the highly religious groups.<br/><br/><hr/><hr/><strong>Dominic Sugar (Philadelphia)</strong><br/><br/>"Valerie Anne Dobson, Actress and a Model and now an out-in-the-open metahuman. She's an US citizen and 24 years old, all of that is public information now." Michelle spoke seriously but smiled to Dominic as she told him the basics, then frowning. "She's not new to the business but finding much about her is difficult, the Myriad Incorporation is keeping her privacy and most private information is not available. There is a contact number but it is through the company, so it may take a while to get through to her. Plus she is newly out in the open, so with all the information searching going on, it should take a short while for more detailed information to surface." Michelle looked at him apologetically for not having more ready information at hand.<br/><br/>Handing Dominic a paper with some more information, Michelle moved a bit back and Christina muted the television, as Dominic put a call on Thomas. Short moment passed and then the call was picked up, though there was interference on the line. "Dominic, I did some checking and stumbled across something. MI6 is investigating the Healer's disappearance as well, possibly for recruitment. Officially, government has not made up its mind of metahumans yet, treating them as any other citizens, but the agencies deny knowledge about her state. Even at my security clearance." His tone was serious.<br/><br/>"If you can pull strings to go after her, good luck, but whoever took her off the map is good. Lets just hope we wont have the same kind of situation that the germans do. Apparently one of their top fusion researchers was found in his home, killed by an anti-metahuman group, who also wrecked the place and stole his latest prototype. That is on the news if you want to check on it, but what they dont say in public is that no police alarm was triggered, and for someone to off a top-level researcher like that its very strange."<br/><br/>((OOC: The information Callie Del Noire posted in OOC about Val being available is on the sheet Michelle gave to Dominic))<br/><br/><hr/><hr/><strong>Paradox (NYC)</strong><br/><br/>The database query that J7 occupied his thoughts with came up with very little information. Almost frighteningly, the history itself spoke of the german scientist's experiments as failures, and that he had never even become a metahuman. Then another line of information seemed to replace it stating that he had invented the first functional, stable fusion energy device, but that working<em>cold fusion</em>was still ages from being accomplished, the present fusion core he had constructed being capable of containing the fusion reaction and providing cheap power but with an efficiency that paled to the future upgrades, but the devices was<em>decades</em>too early. Besides the fact that the scientist's experiments originally only served as the starting point for someone else who perfected the idea later, but that part of the history was rewritten.<br/><br/>J7 knew the history as it -had happened- and could see it changing. The history did not alter to him, he was still aware of it. Mainly because this scientist's<em>later</em>discoveries were also among the<em>founding discoveries</em>for the whole Time-Travel-process. He had not perfected them either, but he had laid the groundwork before.<br/><br/>Searching came up with no reference to the woman herself at first, but eventually an article appeared.<em>Massacre at Ravenwood Apartments</em>. The grim article detailed what was thought to be a weapons-deal gone wrong. Over 300 bullets had been fired at the scene, the crossfire killing several people, and wounds inflicted by 'unknown weapon' were also noted. What the image in the article showed was several bodies on a parking lot covered in white sheets, ambulances being loaded up with still living, and police yellow tape spread around.<br/><br/>The image also showed several men in fine suits at another image, as well as the woman that he had seen in his mind before with the orb. All of them were laid on the pavement, with cloth drawn up to their necks but bloody marks spread through the cloth still, though darkened. The pictures looked like they were stolen from police crime-scene photoes, too detailed and gory for the reporters to have gotten such shots after the police showed up to keep everyone back.<br/><br/>Apparently caught at the middle of it all, the article noted<em>fully automatic weapons</em>present, as well as the discovery of<em>broken fragments</em>of something the officials declared to have been found to contain traces of intense radiation, lead-shielded before being cracked open, and estimated to have been a core for a frighteningly powerful 'suitcase nuke'.