Greetings Gatewayians,
So Chinese New Year is upon us, 2009 the year of the Ox. What better time to talk about the current events in China Town. Or more accurately the former China Town, currently the Economic Redevelopment Zone, soon to be Thorne Heights. So, as always, here are three things you need to know about the current goings on in the Economic Redevelopment Zone in easily digestible bites.
- Clashes between gang members and the last of the locals in the ERZ have increased since the attempted assassination of Community Activist and Gateway Scion Elizabeth Abigail Bennet. Mayor Thorne has not confirmed rumors that members of his anti-gang supers task force were killed in recent actions. However, there have been no sightings of Black Diamond or his sidekick Automaton in several weeks.
- Commissioner Hall has refused to again comment on rumors that the Mayor's office has forbidden increased police presence in the ERZ. Locals still living in the ERZ have made vocal complaints about long emergency services response time to calls from the ERZ. Freedom of Information requests on 911 call and response logs have been denied and there are suits being filed in local court.
- Currently only a single tenant building remains in the ERZ. It is still at full capacity and none of the owners seem interested in leaving despite the increase in gang activity. The current owner of the building is a Nonprofit under the umbrella of the Princess Project a charitable organization run by Wonder Woman and her sisters Donna Troy and Rachael Storm.
And there you go, everything you need to know to sound well informed when you celebrate your Chinese New Year. Until next time.
Cat Grant
A few days later, Quantum gets a call that the mayor wants him to report in to his job as intelligence expert. He meets with the mayor, his chief of staff, and asst commissioner Augie Miller, who tell him that no one has seen Black Diamond and Automaton in weeks so they think the gangs have taken them out. [Both are actually recovering in the Embassy lab but haven’t awoken yet.] Quantum tells them the truth. So they ask the Myrmidons to stop the gang violence in the ERZ. They suggest a hometown hero museum in the ERZ.
Orichalcum meets Hawkgirl, while Quantum fills the team in about the meeting with the mayor. Orichalcum wants the team to train her brother and Grandfather once they recover. Achilles suggests sending Black Diamond to the JSA for legacy training. The group then discusses the ERZ problem. Rachael calls Commissioner Hall, who thinks the people behind the ERZ has brought in the mob to drive out the people in Rachael’s building (where the remainder of the Chinatown residents are living, including Orichalcum’s parents).
The team goes to Chinatown, and Orichalcum and Hawkgirl in their real identities talk to the people in Rachael’s building about where to find the mob causing the problems, while the other pursue other sources. They all find that the former Chinese theatre is one place everyone points to, so the team busts in, where they interrupt a powerpoint presentation on sensitivity training and start taking fire. The team wipes all of them out, while Quantum gets the laptop from the presentation. As Quantum, who took bullets, remains in the Theatre, the rest of the team checks out other buildings, but they’re empty. Meanwhile, the police arrest the captured mobsters
Elizabeth talks to the DA to try to keep the mobsters from getting bail, but it doesn’t go as she wants. The prisoners are immediately released on bail, which seems to have been put up by a legitimate bail charity, funded in part by the Bennet Foundation.
Quantum is thanked by the mayor’s office. Next day, Commissioner Hall is fired for supposedly keeping the police from responding to 911 calls from Chinatown, which Elizabeth had reported to the government.
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