| Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge |
A freight truck zooms through the bridge that connects Mercer Island to Seattle while a squad of police cars are trailing closely behind Other cars on the bridge quickly swerve out of the way of the truck to avoid getting crushed by the vehicle that refuses to budge. Inside the truck are a group of about eight armed gunmen and intensely large packages of illegal substances, such as drugs, weapons, etc. The truck driver stares intently at the road ahead of him.
This is when he notices the shadow of a person with rapidly moving wings on the ground in front of him. The driver looks up into the sky, and sees the Daybreak heroes, Bugseye flying through the sky while holding onto his partner, Piper!
Driver: Oh shit!
The driver presses the gas pedal harder, even though the truck is already moving at top speeds.
Piper: Now!
As Piper yells this command, Bugseye drops her onto the roof of the truck. She nearly sticks the landing, but was not anticipating the intertia to swipe her feet out from under her. Piper barrel rolls backwards, but manages to stop herself before reaching the edge of the truck. She takes a moment to gather herself and looks up into the sky at Bugseye, who is still flying above the truck.
Piper reaches down and places her hand on the roof of the truck. In an instant, The roof of the truck turns from steel, into a pile of leaves that get blown backwards into the road. She falls down into the truck where all the armed gunmen are just blinking at her. Piper is stunned and was not expecting this encounter. She considers saying something witty, but just assumes it will come out cheesy instead, so she stays quiet, deciding her next move here.
As the gunmen scream and raise their guns at her, Bugseye quickly swoops down and uses his own body and momentum to pummel some of the gunmen to the ground. Piper quickly acts on this distraction and attacks the gunmen that are still standing. Each one of them, she grabs a hold of their weapons and turns the killing machines into useless sand.
Bugseye swoops up the gunmen one by one and flies them out of the truck, placing them on the ground, repeating this process until there is nobody left inside the truck besides Piper.
The driver is now all over the road, going out of his way to hit other people who are just trying to go about their day. Bugseye launches into the air once again and flies ahead of the truck, just to turn around and smash through the windshield. With one quick, swift blow to the face, Bugseye knocks out the driver, then kicks the drivers door open. He pushes the driver out of the moving truck, and killing him in order to get control and finally stop the vehicle right before it entered the tunnel to Seattle.
Minutes later, Piper is seen talking with the authorities. She looks around curiously, wondering where the driver of the freight truck is. She walks over to where Bugseye is, but before he notices her, he takes off i to the sky with his mechanical wings, heading back to the headquarters. Piper raises an eyebrow and watches him fly away.
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| UTF |
Daniel and Chris walk into the training facility now that they are out of school. Daniel is visibly annoyed as they enter.
Daniel: My team just stopped a high speed chase on the bridge… And i was inside all day doing useless shit!
Chris: Ouch… That does suck, but like… There’s never *not* going to be other high speed chases.
Daniel: Yeah, I know, Chris. But I still would rather be out there than in that fucking school.
Chris: I know. Well hey, my parents always tell me that you’re only a kid once. We have our entire lives to do adult superhero shit. Let’s just enjoy the easy life while we got it.
Daniel turns to Chris, giving him a nasty look.
Daniel: And what about my life do you think has been easy?
Chris’ eyes widen, as he knows he just fucked it by saying that. He clears his throat and looks forward.
Chris: … Yeah. Let’s just let off some steam.
Panning through the UTF, it is infinitely more busy than it once was due to all the new heroes who have come to Seattle. Thanks to the money they bring to train at the UTF, more advanced equipment has been implemented into the facility. Many new faces are roaming throughout the UTF, trying to gain attention and better hone their powers.
Blayne Diaz walks through the facility with a duffel bag around his shoulder. He looks around at the other heroes there, making his way to the locker room. He catches Anna Caine blowing subzero degree waves of frost at a manakin until it tips over and shatters on the ground like ice. Anna looks back at him looking and shoots him a nasty side eye as an automatic antisocial response.
Blayne: Sorry?
He shivers as he feels the cold just from her stare, and keeps walking. He shakes his head at that interaction, already feeling the new hostility of Seattle. He whispers to himself as he looks up, seeing Bullet-Man through the window of the viewing lounge upstairs watching over the entire place.
Blayne: Damn…
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